From: Simon Spero <ses@tipper.oit.unc.edu>
Date: Sun, 14 Jan 1996 11:09:29 +0800
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: [noise] The economics of super-stars - partial cite
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This came up at the bay area cyherpunks meeting - I haven't got the full 
citation, but the orignal paper was by Sherwin Rosen of the University of 
Chicago; it was published in 1981, under the title "The Economics of 
Superstars" - I think it might be in:


        TITLE: Studies in labor markets / edited by Sherwin Rosen.
        PUBLICATION: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1981.
        DESCRIPTION: ix, 395 p. ; 24 cm.
             SERIES: Conference report / Universities--National Bureau 
		    Committee  for Economic Research ; no. 31


Simon
(defun modexpt (x y n)  "computes (x^y) mod n"
  (cond ((= y 0) 1) 
	((= y 1) (mod x n))
	((evenp y) (mod (expt (modexpt x (/ y 2) n) 2) n))
	(t (mod (* x (modexpt x (1- y) n)) n))))