[Boondock]

Would you rather have a million dollars now? or the results of a penny doubled every day for 30 days?

[Silent Steve]

penny doubled

[Boondock]

Originally Posted by Silent Steve

penny doubled

yeah...i'm trying to explain the exponentil thing. like what the result would be but i'm too fuckin stupid.....can you help with that?

like explain what the result would be and how it gets there

[Silent Steve]

Originally Posted by Boondock

yeah...i'm trying to explain the exponentil thing. like what the result would be but i'm too fuckin stupid.....can you help with that?

like explain what the result would be and how it gets there

it's multiplied by two 30 or 31 or 28 times.. however many days there are in a month

If you're in a month with 30 days, you end up with 10,737,418.24, so you're up about 9 million. Also, I wanna say it's not called exponential, I forget what it's called, all I remember is that on those big ass graphing calculators you use "!" to do whatever the hell it's called

[Boondock]

1 cent multiplied does not ass up to 10,737,418,24 or 9 million....i just wna to see a simple explanation so i can undestand how it works out that way cause i'm too fuckin retarded

if you have 1 cent and you double it on the 2nd day, you have 2 cents. then 4 cents, then 8 cnts, then 16 cents, then 32, then 64, then 128.....so far after 6 doubling i'm up to $1.28..how do you get 9 mill

[Silent Steve]

day 1 - 1 cent
day 2 - 2 cents
day 3 - 4 cents
day 4 - 8 cents
day 5 - 16 cents
day 6 - 32 cents
day 7 - 64 cents
day 8 - 1.28
day 9 - 2.56
day10 - 5.12
day11-10.24
day12 - 20.48
day13 - 40.96
day14 - 81.92
day15- 163.84
day16-327.68
day17 - 655.36
day18-1310.72
day19 - 2621.44
day20 - 5242.88
day21 - 10485.76
day22 - 20971.52
day23 - 41943.04
day24 - 83886.08
day25 - 167772.16
day26 - 335544.32
day27 - 671088.64
day28 - 1342177.28
day29 - 2684354.56
day30 - 5368709.12
day31 - 10,737,418.24

oops, looks like I was wrong, ten mil was 31 days

[Boondock]

that owns man..thanks for breaking it down like that for me man

[highgirly420]

its exponents, like 10 to the 3rd power would be 10 times 10 times 10 which would be 1,000

[Silent Steve]

Originally Posted by highgirly420

its exponents, like 10 to the 3rd power would be 10 times 10 times 10 which would be 1,000

nah, not exponents, don't remember what it's called, but it's not exponents, because .01 times .01 is .01

[Boondock]

you sure man..i thought it was exponential growth

[Silent Steve]

son of bitch your right!

[falnsenseofpryde]

yeah we learned that last year or somthing and it was gay, my teacher had a unibrow and cried when we didntdo our homework

[KO]

yeah, definatly go with the exponential growth, i dont need it that bad that quick

[Jugador]

Originally Posted by TheDude

If you could gamble with pennies at a casino and they had no limits on the tables you could become a millionaire with a penny if you could win 31 times in a row.

dude, that's a really good idea

[Mr Skinner]

It's exponential growth. The trick is to start at day 2. From then on you got 2 cents. Double that you got 2*2 cent. Double that you got 2*2*2 cents. double that, you got 2*2*2*2 cents, etc.

So day 31 you got 2^30 cents.

[MexicanGreen]

fuck waiting 30days, i want it now....