"Three dim sum set lunches, please," I tell the waiter, who rolls his eyes with boredom.
And three-quarters intend to leave cash to their loved ones, with the average total sum set to be £51,000 this year.
Defenders of the pension changes say the city cannot recruit top-notch people without offering pensions, and insist that newcomers would have to pay a lump sum set by an actuary before joining.
Any compensation proposition is inescapably arbitrary – financially arbitrary in the precise sum set, and perhaps morally arbitrary in that it would involve contemporary Britons who have never bought slaves, atoning for long-dead Britons who did.
The largest chunk of this was a £400m sum set aside to cover costs arising from the same probe as affected Barclays' results; there was also another £100m reserved to compensate customers who were mis-sold payment-protection insurance.And RBS and Barclays are not the only banks being forced to lay aside huge sums for compensation or pay crippling fines.
I wonder how many of the up to 30,000 patients who will have their operations cancelled on Thursday could ever imagine having such a sum set aside for their own retirement, and of which over 85 per cent would come courtesy of the taxpayer?
Then either the sum set fi+fj or the product set fi fj has at least N1+c elements, where c>0 is an absolute constant.
The hit ratio by the sum set increases when Ni increases or Na decreases.
The database enrichment by the sum of the two sets (sum set) was close to that obtained by the product of the two sets, but the hit ratio by the consensus set was higher than that by the sum set when less than 20% of the compounds of the database were selected.
If they had chosen the traditional, expensive approach, the team would have spent large sums setting up a satellite network and positioning earth-based receivers to collect the data for calculating electron content in the ionosphere.
