Tuesday, April 10, 2012

CD Calculator

This calculates the number of years for an initial investment to accumulate (thanks to interest) to a certain amount based on given initial amount, final amount, and interest rate.

A few things I learned from this:

a) When setting up a counter, define an initial value for the counter.
years=0
years += 1

b) Argh! Use decimal format for interest rate. It's much more logical.

c) Check signs (ie greater than versus less than).

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