I think this might have been done here before but I couldn’t find it with my weak search-fu… is there a formula that a non-math, lay person could understand to explain this ?
Either you posted the wrong video link or I’m thoroughly confused…
Ah, I think I know what he’s trying to link to… was it this
Needs a better title. Please. And more than just a link.
And I’m with BrandonR. To save others the trouble of clicking, the link is a YouTube video of the soundtrack of the Jerry Reed banjo tune “Henry Ford” about the struggles of driving, with cheesy illustrations, definitely took way more time to produce than it’s worth.
Is this a case of pasting the wrong link from your clipboard, OP? What is it that needs explaining here?
Don’t drink and post.
What, country music? As of yet, no; since country music combines the domains of General Harmonity and Quantum Melodics, we’d need a completely reharmonizable quantum theory of travesty for a full assessment. Our best guess to date seems to be String Theory, but there’s lots of disagreement whether we should use six or twelve strings, or indeed if the theory is at all applicable to banjos.
There has been some recent success in evaluating both the lo- and high-fidelity limit, though, leading to the theorems that i) Johnny Cash’s music was the greatest of all time, and ii) Garth Brooks will always rake in more money than anyone else (building on the works of mathematician and Nobel laureate John Forbes Nash and singer-songwriter Willy DeVille, these are known as the Nash-Ville Theorems).
To go out on a limb, though, maybe the OP is talking about these lines:
If so, then yes, there’s a relatively easy formula for that – it’s simply accumulated interest paid on a loan of $4000, though to amount to $14000.99, the loan would have to either run for a really long time, or ol’ Jerry got screwed pretty bad on the interest rating (starting with an amount x of $4000, total debt can be figured by d = x + npx, where p is the interest rate and n is the payback duration in years. Thus, assuming an interest rate of 5%, we get 50-odd years for the duration, and assuming a somewhat more realistic duration of 10 years, we get an interest rate of 25%).
Though the song talks about accessories, oil, gas and whatever else additional costs are caused by the acquisition of a car, which may all figure into the total sum in an unknown amount.
Damn you!
Don’t fight the hypothetical. I’d suggest posting over again, this time with a descriptive title. And a better link, assuming you screwed the first one up.
Half Man Half Wit. You win the thread.
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