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Stop using e for compound interest
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Finally, the bank compounds interest continuously, letting you leave with exactly e times the amount you put in after a year. Because of this, banks have to publish the interest rate, compound interval, and annual percentage yield separately. None of these topics (calculus, complex analysis, and trigonometry) require prior knowledge about e specifically, so why bring it up using compound interest?
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