e as a limit발음듣기
e as a limit
Narrator: In a previous video when we were looking at a very simple case of compounding interest, we got the expression (1+1/n)^n and the way we got this, we saw an example where a loan shark is charging 100% interest and that's where this 1 is, and then if they only compound once in the year, so it's 100% over the year, then n is 1.발음듣기
So, you get 1+100%/1^1, you're going to have to pay back twice the amount of the original amount of money.발음듣기
In that last video we went as high as n=365 and it seemed to be approaching a magical number, but now let's go even further.발음듣기
This part that we have here is that n gets larger and larger, it's getting closer and closer to 1, but never quite exactly 1.발음듣기
We're going to raise that thing to the millionth power and normally when you raise something to the millionth power, that's just going to be unbounded, just become some huge number, but there's a clue that 1 to the millionth power will just be 1.발음듣기
Let's go, instead of the 7th power, let's go to the eighth power, so now we're (1+1/100,000,000^100,000,000) I don't even know if this calculator can handle this and we get 2.71828181487 and you see that we are quickly approaching, or maybe not so quickly, we have to raise this to a very large power, to the number e.발음듣기
You see we've already gotten 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 digits to the right of the decimal point by taking it to the 100 millionth power.발음듣기
We are approaching, so one way to talk about it is we could say the limit, as n approaches infinity.발음듣기
It seems to be approaching this number and we will call this number, we will call this magical and mystical number e.발음듣기
We'll call this number e and we see from our calculator that this number and these are kind of, these are almost as famous digits as the digits for Pi, we are getting 2.7182818 and it just keeps going and going and going.발음듣기
Just like Pi. Pi, you remember, is the ratio of the circumference to the diameter of the circle. e is another one of these crazy numbers that shows up in the universe.발음듣기
If I just add 1 over a number to 1 and take it to that number and I make that number larger and larger and larger, it's approaching this number, but what's even crazier about it is we'll see that this number, which you can view, one way of it, it is coming out of this compound interest.발음듣기
That number, Pi, the imaginary unit which is defined as that imaginary unit squared is a negative 1, that they all fit together in this magical and mystical way and we'll see that again in future videos.발음듣기
But just for the sake of e, what you could imagine what's happening here is going to our previous example of borrowing $1 and trying to charge 100% over a year, when our n was 1, that means you're just charging over 1 period.발음듣기
When n is 2, you're charging over 2 periods and then compounding, or you're compounding over 2 periods.발음듣기
When n approaches infinity, you could view it as you're continuously compounding every zillionth of a second.발음듣기
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