Imagine for a second you have received an email, which isn't spam nor trying to steal your bank details, but it says:

Congratulations you have won a prize in the prize raffle, the 2 prizes you get to choice from are either:

1 - A one-off payment of 1,000,000,000 units of money

or

2 - 31 daily payments, starting with 1 unit, which keeps doubling, so day 2 you will get given 2 units (plus the 1 you got given on the first day) and day 3 will be 4 units.

 

Which of the 2 options would you pick and why?

Can't I pick both?:wink3:

If you pick option 2 you will get (2^31)-1 units... which is a lot. So I would pick that one.

 

If I got the question right. :thinking:

Doesn't it depend on the value of the unit? What if 1 unit was a penny?

 

Too much maths required for me, I'd take the million

Can't I pick both?:wink3:

 

No :P

 

If you pick option 2 you will get (2^31)-1 units... which is a lot. So I would pick that one.

 

If I got the question right. :thinking:

 

I work it out to be 2147483647 units, double what you would get with the first option.

Doesn't it depend on the value of the unit? What if 1 unit was a penny?

 

Too much maths required for me, I'd take the million

 

First of all, you're using units twice, so whatever unit you're using doesn't matter.

 

Second, 1,000,000,000 is a billion.

the first, because life is short and who knows what could happen in 31 days?

 

plus, i'm really impatient. :P

I work it out to be 2147483647 units, double what you would get with the first option.

 

2147483647=(2^31)-1

Doesn't it depend on the value of the unit? What if 1 unit was a penny?

 

Too much maths required for me, I'd take the million

 

At work it's £10 Million or a penny.

 

I just took it down to a easy factor of base 1

First of all, you're using units twice, so whatever unit you're using doesn't matter.

 

Second, 1,000,000,000 is a billion.

 

I told you it was too much maths for me :dozey:

The 1st option - 1,000,000,000. I don't know what happens the next day or month, so Viva La Vida, I'm going to get some great value instantly instead of keep dreaming on about what I could have or was going to get, which I couldn't because it would take ages before I got enough money for it. Can you even live long enough to make value of the 2nd option minimum as big as the 1,000,000,000? :thinking:

Second option. Ill pay less taxes. :D *at least in my country*

The 1st option - 1,000,000,000. I don't know what happens the next day or month, so Viva La Vida, I'm going to get some great value instantly instead of keep dreaming on about what I could have or was going to get, which I couldn't because it wouyld take ages before I got the money. Can you even live long enough to make value of the 2nd option minimum as big as the 1,000,000,000? :thinking:

 

On the 31st day you will get given 1,073,741,824 to go with the 1073741823 you already have been given :)

 

So unless you die within the 31 days you are better off with the 2nd option

Lol the famous chess problem.

one grain of rice, 2 grains of rice etc ;)

 

We were bored that day at work :P

Also a useful formula, (2^0)+(2^1)+(2^2)+...+(2^x)=(2(x+1))-1

Watching all this... Well way too much math stuff... I never really understood it.

Second option. Ill pay less taxes. :D *at least in my country*

 

You pay taxes? :p

 

Also a useful formula, (2^0)+(2^1)+(2^2)+...+(2^x)=(2(x+1))-1

 

Milica idk if I've told you this before but you're by the most intelligent female I've ever met.

If I do option 2, and I die. Will my family still receive it in my place? :)

Also a useful formula, (2^0)+(2^1)+(2^2)+...+(2^x)=(2(x+1))-1

:shocked2: That's like Jappanese for me. :lol:

MK is just confusing everybody with her advanced maths :P

Also a useful formula, (2^0)+(2^1)+(2^2)+...+(2^x)=(2(x+1))-1

 

is that a summation? :wacko:

.. maybe? :uhoh2:

Milica idk if I've told you this before but you're by the most intelligent female I've ever met.

 

Thank you. :nice:

 

:shocked2: That's like Jappanese for me. :lol:

 

MK is just confusing everybody with her advanced maths :P

 

:lol:

its all to do with the sequence formula

Now the problem of setting another question is that it will be easy for you lot to cheat and look it up on Google :(