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Old 12-15-2005, 11:36 PM   #10 (permalink)
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Chankama, I think you might own!
Yeay! .. BOOM HEADSHOT??!

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Originally posted by idiotec
The person asking me this question thought that it should work to take 1/(1-.8) X 5. That equation works out to 25. The problem was, no one new if that equation actually worked, or why it worked.

With you coming up with 25 years as well, I think it does!
Cool . Then I don't have to recheck it then..

I did the derivative of that thing on the fly, so hopefully there isn't a mistake there!

btw, that k/(1-k) formula I used to derive the second one is just the sum of a geometric series - which is very easy to prove.
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