Apply the Barnett Formula - the formula that decides how much money each nation gets as its share of the overall pot - and Mr Salmond's ministers ought not to be getting so much more than Wales.
If you assume that the IMF kept stumping up its share of rescue funds, the pot would be just enough to see Spain through the next three years without having to go to the markets: but it is nowhere near enough to cover Italy too.
The next step is Mr Cameron's reply which they hope will promise a generous share of Lord Heseltine's proposed pot worth several billion pounds, they hope!
The NFL owners knew that the more exclusions they create from All Revenue, the less they have to share because the item is no longer in the pot from which sharing occurs.
Mr Cameron and Nick Clegg, the Lib Dem deputy prime minister, share a vision of a public sector enlivened by greater competition and less dependent on a dwindling pot of state funding.
The deal nearly doubles the share of Chinese box-office receipts that movie producers may keep, to 25%, creating a bigger pot for Imax and other theater chains.