I just lost $20 and it ...

[PierBridge]

.....coulda been much worse!

So without Googling or using a calculator here guys .... if you started with a Penny on day 1 of a 31 day month and you doubled it each day how much money in Dollars would you have after day 31.

For those that know the answer hold off a bit ...

I said $52 bucks off the top of my head when asked.... but took the bet quickly after hearing the number my friend put out.

One clue, you have $5 and some change after 10 days.

[rundrave]

curiosity got the best of me and I had to cheat... I wasn't even close with my guess

[aanderud]

Oh, yeah if someone says the right number and you're not in the right frame of mind, you're going to think he's on crack and bet against him. I thought I knew the answer but I was off by one iteration, ended up guessing twice as much as it really was.

[PierBridge]

Good News just recouped $5 on this one from a Co-worker... he's still in denial and crunching numbers as we speak ....

Next clue ... Who wants to be a ..........

[Gordie]

does the answer end in the amount of .24

[PierBridge]

Darn you Gordie ... the kids helped ya right?...

[PierBridge]

Normally its done with just 30 days so obviously the extra day "31" doubles it to a larger number.

[DTro]

Heres another good bar bet. Ask what RPG stands for in reference to the gun that shoots grenades. 9/10 people will say Rocket Propelled Grenade

[DTro]

RPG is an initialism from the Russian language

( transliterated as "ruchnoy protivotankovy

granatomyot" ), meaning "hand-held anti-tank

grenade launcher".

[PierBridge]

Good one.

My nephew "RedBull" just got back from Kuwait I'll run it by him 1st and move downward through my peeps!

Hope your right tho?

[Farley]

RPG is an initialism from the Russian language

( transliterated as "ruchnoy protivotankovy

granatomyot" ), meaning "hand-held anti-tank

grenade launcher".

Rocket Propelled Grenade is also correct though.

From Wikipedia:

"A rocket-propelled grenade (often abbreviated RPG) is a shoulder-fired, anti-tank weapon system which fires rockets equipped with an explosive warhead"

World English Dictionary:

RPG

— abbreviation for

1. report program generator: a business-oriented computer programming language

2. rocket propelled grenade

3. role-playing game

[LMITOUT]

So without Googling or using a calculator here guys .... if you started with a Penny on day 1 of a 31 day month and you doubled it each day how much money in Dollars would you have after day 31.

(2^30)/100

[aanderud]

(2^30)/100

I guess we can probably post the answer by now. It's roughly 1 BILLION PENNIES, or roughly 10 MILLION dollars. Exponential growth is amazing.

It sounds crazy, but it is also exactly the same way that we can grow from from a 2-celled fertilized egg to a baby human being with roughly 50-100 TRILLION cells in as little as 180 days!

[PierBridge]

I about dropped over dead from laughter when he said he THOUGHT it was over 10 mill ...

I couldn't have agreed to the bet any faster after hearing that number. Even after crunching some quick numbers after the bet I still thought I had won. I mean come on, how does $5.62 after 10 days turn into 10 million LOL ... had to check it multiple times and I'm still in shock.

[mainbutter]

(2^30)/100

beat me to it.

The power of exponential growth.

[mainbutter]

$5.12

Fixed. Learn your powers of 2. Everyone should be able to rattle them off to 2^16.

[Spike76]

10,737,418.24

[PierBridge]

10,737,418.24

We have a Winner! ..