Saffron troika 5 keys and 5 c 3 ? <| sep |> What am I missing about this ? ?? What ' s so goodEditdidn ' t really even look at it I say life str and fire damage and was like whatever bleh . The . I say % life and % str and it gets a little more interesting <| sep |> To be clear the options are 1 $ 7 M now interest for 60 years , and 2 $ 1000 a day for 60 years interest , right ? I ' ll assume interest is compounded continuously and that it ' s effectively 3 % 60 % of 5 %. We can calculate the yield from a principal amount using the formula A P ertexponentialslogarithms 04 c ontinuouscompoundinterest 02 . So option 1 yields 7 Me 0 . 0360 $ 42 , 347 , 532 . 30 . Option 2 is a little harder to calculate . On day n you have amount An which is a new $ 1000 plus the amount on the previous day increased by interest An 1000 An 1 e 0 . 031365 . 25 , and A 0 0 . I ' m going to define Ee 0 . 031365 . 25 for simplicity . We can make this explicit like this An 10001 EE 2 . En 1 EnA 0 . Since A 00 we can omit the last part , and the first part here is a geometric sum so this can be written as 10001 En 1 E . There are 21915 days in 60 years , so A 21915 $ 61 , 476 , 933 . 10 . Edit As a bonus , you can calculate how long you need to live before option 2 starts being as good as option 1 by solving 7 Me 0 . 03 n 365 . 25 10001 En 1 E . This happens when n 10417 actually 10416 . 9408 days actually 10416 . 9408 days or 28 . 52 years when you ' ll have $ 16 , 469 , 653 . 30 .