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Originally Posted by rowan
Programmers should be able to work out the double every day thing quite easily since it's the same as binary. 2 ^ 30 = 1073741824
or $10,737,418.24
Halfway through the month, or 2 ^ 15, you're at only $327.68
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The problem I have with the riddle is that it's assuming a 31 day month, as the first day you only get 1 cent, meaning in a generally accepted 30 day period, the total is 1 + 2 ^ 29.
Oh yeah, and the movie was fucking awful. I had two different people recommend it to me and I'll never forgive them.