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6 Sep 2024 21:20:01 EDT (-0400)
  Re: A puzzle  
From: Orchid XP v8
Date: 23 Oct 2008 15:23:50
Message: <4900cf46$1@news.povray.org>
andrel wrote:
> On 23-Oct-08 17:58, Invisible wrote:
>> If something earns 10% compound interest in a year, how much interest 
>> does it earn in half a year?
>>
>> (Now if it were *simple interest*, it would be 5%. But I don't how 
>> what it is for compound interest...)
> 
> Isn't this why logarithms were invented?

Probably. But I don't know how to correctly apply them in this case...

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