I know that we are supposed to stay on topic so I am rewriting this from the way i originaly heard it a long time ago and I know that some of you have heard this one as well so bear with me.

A genorous muliti billionare approches you one day and makes 2 propositions and you can only choose 1:

Proposition # 1- He will give you unlimited resources and unlimited funds to finish your 197(insert your year here)
Ford f-100. But the catch is that you only have 30 days and then the offer is finished even if you are not finished with the project and you get to keep the truck.

Proposition # 2: you come to work for him at his road building company and dig ditches by hand for 12 hours a day 7 days a week for 30 days. The pay will start at 1 penny a day and he will pay you at the end of each day doubling your pay every day and you get to keep what you make each day and at the end of the 30 days you keep your total earnings and go back to your garage and tinker with your Ford.

WHICH PROPOSITION WOULD YOU TAKE???


Now wait just a minute before you call me an idiot. make up your mind and then scroll down to see if you made the right choice






















































































































































































































MONEY YOU MADE OR COULD OF MADE DIGGING DITCHES


day 1- .01
day 2- .02
day 3- .04
day 4-.08
day 5- .16
day 6- .32
day 7- .64
day 8- 1.28
day 9- 2.56
day 10- 5.12
day 11-10.24
day 12- 20.48
day 13- 40.96
day 14- 81.92
day 15- 163.84
day 16- 327.68
day 17- 655.36
day 18- 1310.72
day 19- 2621.44
day 20- 5242.88
day 21- 10,485.76
day 22- 20, 971.52
day 23- 41,943.04
day 24- 83,886.08
day 25- 167,772.16
day 26- 335,544.32
day 27- 671,088.64
day 28- 1,342,177.28
day29- 2,684,354.56
day30- 5,368,709.12

thats $10,737,418.23 for 360 hours of digging ditches. how many dents could you buy and restore for 10 mil?!!!!!

MIND BLOWING ISN'T IT!

 

come on...really?

 

lol you chose the 1rst proposition before you scrolled down didn't you lol be honest
do the math man its for real

 

just in case you didnt get it...i wasnt asking if the math was real. i was wondering why you wasted my time and bumped tech threads to the 2nd page.

 

hey man just trying to have some fun don't be that way about it

 

Ahh yes, the exponential function which looks like a hockey stick on a graph.

 

The quick way to calculate your total amount earned for any time period with the same terms is to use Total=(1-2^(days))/(1-2) and divide the answer by 100 to get the amount in $.

wow... imagine investing that, then living and restoring off the interest... no work, only restoration. I could restore at least maybe two vehicles

 

my only question's would be,

"by hand? you mean just my two hands? no shovel?" lol lol only joking,

secondly "how wide and how deep are the ditches!" lol lol lol

but i will agree this is interesting, and amazing, and i have heard these types of questions before in different setups,

-Brent