how many pennies in 1 million dollars?
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my fiance thinks that if she puts a penny in a jar and every day she doubles whats in the jar every day that you will have 1million in a month. thats 100million pennies right?
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.01 .02 .04 .08 .16 .32 .64 1.28 2.56 5.12 10.24 20.48 40.96 81.92 163.84 327.68 655.36 1310.72 2621.44 5242.88 10485.76 20971.52 41943.04 83886.08 167772.16 335544.32 671088.64 1342177.28 and thats only 28 days
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haha...well she heard it from someone at work....i did the math...if you double it every day for 31 days it actually comes out to 1,073,741,824 pennies which divided by 100 (# of pennies in 1 USD) 536,870,912 this is all provided my math is correct.... but i'm no math major...
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Yea working it in excel i get that 1 mil is made on the 28th day. That's assuming you put 1 penny in the first day and double it the second and add another penny (so second day you'd have double the first (2 pennies) + another penny, so 3 pennies total).
I get a total of 10.8 mil after a month
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I get a total of 10.8 mil after a month
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i worked it in excel too....had to brake out some old school formulas to figure that **** out.... i never use spreadsheets anymore...
will, you are doing it wrong. its 1 penny day 1, 2 day 2 4day 3 etc...
will, you are doing it wrong. its 1 penny day 1, 2 day 2 4day 3 etc...
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Originally Posted by skipperbisket
1,073,741,824 pennies which divided by 100 (# of pennies in 1 USD) 536,870,912 this is all provided my math is correct.... but i'm no math major...
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haha if you got a dollar every day you were alive you wouldnt even get a million dollars. youd get in the low to mid hundred thousands. i did the math on it about 2 years ago so i dont remember how many years a million days was
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What's so difficult to understand here? A penny doubled every day for 30 days is $5,368,709.20
It comes from the old riddle: Would you rather have $100,000 or a penny doubled for 30 days? Of course most people would pick the $100,000, but obviously that would be the wrong choice.
It comes from the old riddle: Would you rather have $100,000 or a penny doubled for 30 days? Of course most people would pick the $100,000, but obviously that would be the wrong choice.