4 ms·
Let's hope they don't close your account. In Futurama's "A Fishful of Dollars"[1] Fry discovers that the $0.93 he had in his account when he was cryogenically
by thamer 5y ago
Let's hope they don't close your account.
In Futurama's "A Fishful of Dollars"[1] Fry discovers that the $0.93 he had in his account when he was cryogenically frozen in the year 2,000 had grown at 2.25% a year to almost $4.3 billion when he was reawakened 1,000 years later.
Yes, the match checks out[2]: 0.93 * (1.0225 ^ 1000) ≈ 4,283,508,449.71
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Fishful_of_Dollars https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Fishful_of_Dollars
[2] https://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=0.93+*+%281.0225+%5E+1000%29 https://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=0.93+*+%281.0225+%5E+1...
- dTal 5y agoOf course that episode conveniently overlooks inflation. In reality, 4 billion dollars in the year 3000 would barely buy you a stick of Big Pink - the only gum made with the breath-freshening power of ham.