Choose one!

[u/Bulacano]

Which side will you choose?

• Left side: A chessboard of rice, but Fibonacci sequence! (1,1,2,3,5,8,13…)
• Right side: $200 in $20 double eagles every day for life! (Pre-33, melt value)

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[u/sadmysteriousghost]

what the fuck am i reading

^{Chose: $200 in $20 double eagles every day for life! (Pre-33, melt value})

[u/Midg54]

That is near infinite rice but I'll take the money

^{Chose: $200 in $20 double eagles every day for life! (Pre-33, melt value})

[u/Bulacano → u/Midg54]

You actually have to live 27 years to breakeven assuming 5% gold price increase, instant rice sale, and 8% ROI. I guess no one did the math 😓

[u/Z3400 → u/Bulacano]

Assuming instant rice sale is pretty unrealistic though.

[u/Bulacano → u/Z3400]

Depends if it’s in physical form or paper

[u/real-human-not-a-bot]

F(n)≈phi^n/sqrt(5), so F(66)-1=sum_1⁶⁴ F(k) is about phi^66/sqrt(5), or about 2.778*10¹³ grains of rice. Assume I use on the order of 10,000 grains per cup. Then I have about 2.778*10⁹ cups. Round down to 2*10⁹ cups. Assume $0.50/cup. That gets me $10^9, which is $100 million.

The melt value of a $20 double eagle is around $4000 today because it’s 90% gold. Finite geometric series: 4000*365*sum_0⁵⁴ 1/(1.02)^k (54 being my remaining life expectancy according to actuarial tables and 1.02 being 2% inflation) is around $50 million.

The rice may be a hassle, but I get twice as much and I can sell all of it now instead of in drips and drabs over the next fifty years. Plus it’s given instead of limited by whether or not I happen to die early, so it’s a useful hedge in that sense too.

^{Chose: A chessboard of rice, but Fibonacci sequence! (1,1,2,3,5,8,13…})

[u/Bulacano → u/real-human-not-a-bot]

Fundamental review: a cup of rice is merely 8 cents. Time value of money makes it around 27 years instead of 54. Pending actual review.

[u/real-human-not-a-bot → u/Bulacano]

Only 8? Wow. Okay, so $20 million. Then if you’re right about the time-value thing, I’m not sure how to take that into account—do I only calculate from 0 to 27, take the even terms from 0 to 54, divide by something like 1.04 instead of 1.02, or something else? If the former, that’s around $32 million. If the second or third, that’s around $25 million. I just realized I haven’t taken investment into account either, though, so I guess still the rice?

[u/Bulacano → u/real-human-not-a-bot]

I threw 8% on market for investments and 5% on the gold spot price. Still, it turns the chessboard puzzle from an impossibility to a legitimate amount of rice.

[u/real-human-not-a-bot → u/Bulacano]

I don’t know money math (only pure math), so I have no idea what it means to throw percentages on market or for a spot price. I can tell you that 5 and 8 are consecutive Fibonacci numbers, but that’s about it.

[u/Bulacano → u/real-human-not-a-bot]

I’m no good at the actual series functions for this. It’s some compound interest calculation with a breakeven point, but you could probably just sidestep it with some estimate like P=e^rt.

[u/Holmes02]

What

^{Chose: $200 in $20 double eagles every day for life! (Pre-33, melt value})

[u/girlmachina]

jesse what the fuck are you talking about

^{Chose: $200 in $20 double eagles every day for life! (Pre-33, melt value})

[u/downtimed244]

Mhh

^{Chose: $200 in $20 double eagles every day for life! (Pre-33, melt value})

[u/Degenerecy]

Just because I have no clue what the second one is.

^{Chose: A chessboard of rice, but Fibonacci sequence! (1,1,2,3,5,8,13…})

[u/Still_Balance5195]

hm

^{Chose: $200 in $20 double eagles every day for life! (Pre-33, melt value})

[u/TwistedDonners]

More dosh

^{Chose: A chessboard of rice, but Fibonacci sequence! (1,1,2,3,5,8,13…})

[u/KNIGHT_OF_THE_SKIES_]

Bigger better

^{Chose: A chessboard of rice, but Fibonacci sequence! (1,1,2,3,5,8,13…})

[u/Z3400]

Daily money vs a ridiculous mountain of rice that I would realistically have no way to deal with before it was ruined and worthless lol. I don't even need to bother figuring out what the actual values are.

^{Chose: $200 in $20 double eagles every day for life! (Pre-33, melt value})

[u/Bulacano → u/Z3400]

Options and commodities are a thing you know…

[u/Z3400 → u/Bulacano]

Sure, but this implies I am simply given the rice. It does not imply that I receive some sort of contract for rice deliveries and a way to sell it all. Unless the ai screwed something up when I juse quickly checked this, apparently raw bulk rice is traded at only about $600usd per metric ton. So that mountain of rice is worth about $300million, if I can sell it all. The other option is about $40k daily, which is already an absurd amount but in a much more easily managed way.

[u/Bulacano → u/Z3400]

Real talk, where did the rice come from? 🤔

[u/Z3400 → u/Bulacano]

Magic chessboard genie. Obviously

[u/Bulacano → u/Z3400]

Does the genie take customization requests? Please? 🙏

[u/Z3400 → u/Bulacano]

I don't know. Depends on his mood.

[u/Bulacano → u/Z3400]

Nooo come on we can talk about the third wish being something that benefits him too

[u/Financial_General_45]

There is a pattern, and there is a purpose.

^{Chose: A chessboard of rice, but Fibonacci sequence! (1,1,2,3,5,8,13…})

[u/Hot_Detective1335]

Idk

^{Chose: $200 in $20 double eagles every day for life! (Pre-33, melt value})

[u/Wide_Love_4458]

Good

^{Chose: A chessboard of rice, but Fibonacci sequence! (1,1,2,3,5,8,13…})

[u/Mission-Dark-9320]

I’m already sick of thinking about that amount of rice. Give me gold and I’ll buy what I want

^{Chose: $200 in $20 double eagles every day for life! (Pre-33, melt value})