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You’re talking addition and subtraction, compounding deals with multiplication.

• JMTQp8lwXL 7y ago
  To reap the benefits of compound interest (in your favor), you need to stick to a plan. You can't dump your investment portfolio after 5 years. It's these small, daily decisions that add up over time. So while the output is multiplicative, the necessary input is only linear.
  • BoiledCabbage 7y ago
    Yes but the linear input is not the relevant part. The compounding is.
    • JMTQp8lwXL 7y ago
      If you had to put in compounding effort, the compounding output would seem far less intriguing or worthwhile. If investment returns weren't exponential, or required exponential input to receive exponential output, it'd be far less useful of a concept.
• isoskeles 7y ago
  Multiplication is just a specific form of addition operations and is easily writable as such.
• loco5niner 7y ago
  The word 'add' is overloaded for both mathematical and non-mathematical purposes.