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would you rather have $1 million right now, get 1 penny today , 2 pennies tomorrow, 4 pennies the next and so on doubling every day for all of June coming up?
Also, my friend *spoiled* my cake and ruined my voting last November
| 1 million dollars of course | 11 | |
| a penny doubled everyday for a month. | 19 |
If this were a real possibility, I would've bothered to finish my math just now. But thankfully people showed the better answer in the comments- a penny doubled everyday for 1 month.
Definitely a penny doubled everyday for a month. After the 24th of June money starts to get real good... The last 6 days really kick it up to eleven.
Man, that would be so good... All of my dreams come true and all starting from a single penny.
I'll take a clean million as a cashier's check instead of a shitload of pennies I can't get rid of.
Ever read that one children's book about a peasant girl who wanted her reward for a dead was a doubling amount of rice? Within a few weeks she had the entire towns stock.
I would like a penny doubled everyday for a month deposited in to my family trust, so that I might remain completely anonymous, because I treasure my privacy, as well as my personal safety, and that of my immediate family.
This is an old semi-trick question since the answer is counter-intuitive to those who don't have mathematical brains, but the internet makes it easy to find out that starting with a penny and doubling it every day results in receiving nearly $5.5million after 30 days. (And that's in addition to the roughly $5million you would have already received.)
http://www.newtraderu.com/2013/08/19/how-much-does-a-penny-doubled-every-day-for-month-end-up-being/