The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1896-11-15

S THERE a boy or girl that would
like TO make fortune in the next
month? Now keep your seats, and
don't all Of YOU jump up and say
yes at once. Perhaps il was fool
fish 10 ask such question, Tor / might
Lave known what you would DO. Listen
and ] viii tell you how you can make
great deal OF money IN tweniy-siN days.
The only difficulty will be In carrying out
NY conditions. If. however you can 90
this, there viii be no uouDie aDoul l"o
matter al all.
! NV first condition IS that on Monday
next YOU go 10 a bank and deposit one
cent Can YOU do that;
"Of course you may say.
And two cents on Tuesday-can you 90
that. too?
"Why that is easy enough TO do |
think j hear you say again. please tell
us the rest Of the story
Well. / will only ] want you TO observe
i'm how small a way you are beginning.
+ You begin win one cent. remember. and
on the second day you deposit two cents.
on Wednesday you must deposit four
/ cents and on Thursday eight cents.
Continue TO double your deposit In this
way. each day putting in twice as much
as you did the preceding day. The re-
/ ceiving teller. who. as his name indicates,
is the person that would receive all the
money and record each amount in your
/ pass-book. would perhaps. like yourself
3 think YOU a very small customer.
But he would probably think differently
/ as soon as he noticed that you were
doubling your deposit each day. Now,
4 how much do you think you would have
. TO your creGit in bank if you kept this
up for a month say, of twenty-six bHsi-
ness days?
"Why. / suppose" some young mathe-
matician may say, Il suppose | should
have about nifty or sixty dollars, but that
is not a fortune and you said that l
should have q fortune at the end of the
month"
Well let somebody else guess how much
10 would amount 20. Now, an Of you
having had q guess. / will tell you eX-
activ what YOU would have. Promise me
that YOU wo~ jump mp in surprise. Hold
tight TO your chair. You would have eX-
actly St1.0Ss.63i
Would YOU like TO know how so large
sum can grow out of so small begin
hing? Here is the explanation:
Let as begin 10y putting down on paper
/ tho amount you deposited each Of the irst
ten days. say. and VIC will also number
/ the day on which each deposit was made.
TO avoid confusion between tho two sets
I numerals TO indicate The days and the
/ Arabic for the amounts Thus:
I-l II-2 IlI-4 Tvs Vie Nl-a2 Nll-64 VIII
/ Us IX-256 Mop.
Now. you can see how fast the deposits
b grow. but. of course the growth iu the
I first few days Is nothing like so fast is
i il is later in the month.
When number is multiplied by itself
We indicate il by writing a small above
10
dictate that il Is multiplied again boy it.
self We write 3 above 81. the little figure
always showing how many times tic
/ number is taken in the multiplication.
Thus. 10 show that we take eight hves.
We write small above and 10 the right
of the neure g. This means times 8
times times 3, and TO on until We use
eight hvos.
Now. TO return 20 the row Of figures
3 above. You Will observe that TO find how
/ much was deposited on the second day.
We multiply the cent Of the first day by
/ The third days deposit was twice
! that that is. We multiply by another 2
/ on the fourth day the deposit was cent
/ multiplied hy three 2s. and on the nth
day cent multiplied by four rs. Don
you see that 10 ind how much was de-
posted on any given day an you have
J 10 DO is 10 multiply I cent boy as many
2s as the number Of the days. less one?
For example the tenth days deposit is
cent multiplied by nine 2s. and nine
os multiplied together make 5l2.
Now, on the 26th day your deposit
would be ! cent multiplied 10y twenty-five
4 2s. or as mathematicians say. cent
multiplied by raised 10 the twenty-hfth
power II you viii take the trouble to
[ find out how much that is YOU will no
/ doubt be surprised 10 see that it amounts
| 70 1885 54432 SO you see how wonderfully
! it all grows.
/ Does your head ache with al this multi
/ plying? hope net. because we haven't
| finished yet and YOU are TO remember
J that you said YOU wanted 10 make a for
tune. ana now are YOU going to make II
4 unless you keep your accounts right?
Just think OF ii. That S335.5if3- Is only
one days deposit. IL is the amount de-
/ posted on the 26th day. and we have 10
add ali the deposits together for the
/ whole twcuty-siX days. that total being
as We have seen. SG,l.OsS63
There Is an old story that the game OF
chess was invented 10y mathematician
named Sessa. who was the subject OF an
Indian prince, and that the prince was so
much delighted with the game that he re-
! Quested me inventor 20 name his own re-
! ward Tor a. The shrewd Sessa. pretend
would De satisfied II the prince would
B rive htm one grain Of wheat for the first
square OF the chess board two for the
second. four for the third, and so on to
the last or sixty-fourth square.
The prince was at first incensed at
these WORDS. thinking that what Sessa
requested was too trliiing for q prince 10
give but. as Sessa seemed satisfied. the
prince al last ordered his vizier to com
ply with his demands. But. much TO the
/ yiziers establishment when he made his
/ calculations ne found that all the wheat
il the royal granarles and even OF all
his subjects and Ia all Asia, would not
be sufficient 20 pay what Sessa requested.
SO the prince sent for Sessa and told that
he was not rich enough 10 pay him the
/ reward. and compromise was reached.
when. we may well believe. made the
mathematician a very rich man.
II mas been calculated that the number