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lupire
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No , 1%/month is 43% in 3 years.
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faeyanpiraat
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You are right, I must be misremembering something, let me think about it..
fnomnom
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you are probably thinking of doubling? like in the chess & rice story? see:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sissa_(mythical_brahmin)
which leads to
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wheat_and_chessboard_problem
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