Oddbean

She almost had a very interesting question that I'm going to finish for her (because it's very easy math, I'm just a little durrhurr): If a dollar is 100 cents And tax is 10% How many people can you pass that dollar to before it reaches ~50¢, ~25¢, ~10¢, ~1¢. How many times can you pass money from one hand to another, before a 10% tax has taken 50% or more of the total value? Genuinely would love to see the math on this (if anyone could tell me the formula as well that would be based) nostr:nevent1qqs244ud4pas33s4wnhf8l5lq490h2zhg8dmtvlusdn74zw3an86hhqpzpmhxue69uhkummnw3ezuamfdejsygxx7urh795e65x0j25k22l7hlavqh7xss4eacu3pzwetxu26h2gl5psgqqqqqqsv6uhus

If you're passing a dollar bill, it would be 5 people. 0.1*1x=0.5; x=5 If you only have $0.90 after the first pass, because you took out the taxes, then it is more complicated. I don't think there will be a good formula because you have to round to the nearest cent, and rounding error will become very significant. Tax - left 10c - 90c 9c - 81c 8c - 73c 7c - 66c 7c - 59c 6c - 53c 5c - 48c More than half gone after 7 people.