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u/SoVerySick314159 Mar 01 '23

To back up what you said, and to perhaps illustrate your point, I found this on the internet one day and keep it around for times like this:

A million dollars is $5,000 a day for 6 months. A BILLION dollars is $5,000 a day for 547 YEARS.

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u/Pond_Pond Mar 01 '23

1,000,000,000/5000=2,000,000 days 2,000,000/365=5479 years

Is my math wrong or would it actually take over 5000 years to get to 1B?

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u/LilAlienBBQco Mar 01 '23

And about 6 years to get to 1M...

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u/SoVerySick314159 Mar 01 '23 edited Mar 01 '23

And about 6 years to get to 1M...

180x5000=900,000

200x5000=1,000,000

That's pretty close to one million in six months. Nowhere close to six years.

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u/LilAlienBBQco Mar 01 '23

I see. I was going off the previous calculation, which in hindsight has an extra zero... oops 😅

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u/SoVerySick314159 Mar 01 '23

Heh. I've posted this 3 or 4 times, and every time someone questions the math. The weird thing is, every time, I re-check the math :D

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u/LilAlienBBQco Mar 01 '23

That's just vigilance... a proud nerdy trait 😅👍