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In wanting to know of any capital, at a given yearly percentage, in how many years it will double adding the interest to the capital, keep as a rule [the number] 72 in mind, which you will always divide by the interest, and what results, in that many years it will be doubled. Example: When the interest is 6 percent per year, I say that one ...
The notion of doubling time dates to interest on loans in Babylonian mathematics. Clay tablets from circa 2000 BCE include the exercise "Given an interest rate of 1/60 per month (no compounding), come the doubling time." This yields an annual interest rate of 12/60 = 20%, and hence a doubling time of 100% growth/20% growth per year = 5 years.
For example, compounding at an annual interest rate of 6 percent, it will take 72/6 = 12 years for the money to double. The rule provides a good indication for interest rates up to 10%. In the case of an interest rate of 18 percent, the rule of 72 predicts that money will double after 72/18 = 4 years.
Time value of money problems involve the net value of cash flows at different points in time. In a typical case, the variables might be: a balance (the real or nominal value of a debt or a financial asset in terms of monetary units), a periodic rate of interest, the number of periods, and a series of cash flows. (In the case of a debt, cas
If you borrowed $20,000 with a 60-month personal loan at a 9% interest rate, you’d repay roughly $24,900 — or $4,900 in interest over the life of your loan.
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A return of 10% taxed at 25% gives an after-tax return of 7.5%; 0.10 x 0.25 = 0.025 0.10 − 0.025 = 0.075 = 7.5% Investors usually seek a higher rate of return on taxable investment returns than on non-taxable investment returns, and the proper way to compare returns taxed at different rates of tax is after tax, from the end-investor's ...
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