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Here [1] is a page with lots of neat proofs of the solution of the Basel problem.

Provisions for these loses are written into regulations (national and international ones like Basel II/III).

Expensive watches ($40k and up found at Basel World) are meant as signaling devices to other rich people, not us lowly peons.

I attended Basel World (the luxury watch exhibition) once, where the lowest price watch was like 40k CHF (~40K USD).

And Art Basel (and similar events) make New York less relevant too.

Email me db[at]artsy[dot]net or find us at Miami Basel this week.

I can't get close to that in Basel and I'm not even living alone.

If Basel requires that level of auditing, I'd love to see a cite.

If you follow Basel II or III regulations, you will know how hard it has been for the regulators to convince the banks to increase their tier-1 capital.

Haven't you ever heard of the Basel Accords?!

It arrived in Basel 20 minutes late, went through Switzerland without any incident, arrived in Italy, got stuck in a tunnel for an hour and had to change directions back to Switzerland.

The Basel problem is another example: for any small number you pick I can pick a large enough N that sum(1/n^2) from 1 to N will be closer to pi^2/6 that that small number.

I've been to Basel World before, and the "I'm rich watches" start at around 40K CHF.

Now the question is "why did the banks lend to Greece?" and the answer is because Greece and other countries pushed in the Basel agreements to have a risk weight of 0% [2] in order for them to accept the agreements (or else the Greek banks themselves would have been reluctant to hold Greek bonds).

For that matter, LSD was first synthesized by Albert Hofmann while he was working in Basel, Switzerland.

I rose up near the border to Basel, where local trains are operated by the SBB.

Because in many countries if they're publicly-traded or subject to other regulations (such as Basel, etc.) any company that didn't would be breaking the law.