[seqfan] The "financial" definitions for sequences

[N. J. A. Sloane]

Dear Seq Fans, This topic was discussed in this mailing list last year (circa
August 2009, perhaps), but it has come up again in
the course of editing A000330. In the "pink boxes" there, a couple of people 
voted in favor of deleting programs like this,

%p A000330 with(finance):seq(add(futurevalue(k,3,2)*effectiverate(k,1),k=0..n)/16,n=0..44); - Zerinvary Lajos (zerinvarylajos(AT)yahoo.com), Jun 15 2008

, but asked if I had been consulted. 

In reply I said:

As I recall, someone on the Sequence Fans list had some good arguments why the financial commands should be allowed to remain in the OEIS. For example, if these financial commands are things you use every day, then it is reasonable to use them to define sequences. 
That seemed like a sufficient reason to allow them to stay. 
Just because they seem strange to us, doesn't mean they should all be deleted. - NJAS

Neil