Continuous versus Compounded Interest

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This Demonstration compares continuously compounded interest to compounded interest. As the number of periods increases, the compounded interest graph looks more and more like the graph of the continuously compounded interest.
Contributed by: Jonathan Scherzer and Yossi Quint (April 2011)
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Published: April 19 2011