Current Events > Has anyone ever done the math on Fry's bank account in Futurama?

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He starts with $0.93 and has a yearly interest rate of 2.5% compounding over 1,000 years.

The show says it comes to $4.3 billion.

That sounds insane, but 1,000 is a lot of years, so it could be accurate. I'm too lazy to figure out how to do math (or to do a Bing search). Does anybody know?

Ken Keeler, one of the writers on the show, has a PhD in mathematics. So the math in the show will always be accurate.

Edit: He also had to make up a proof to have the body switch episode make mathematical sense.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Prisoner_of_Benda

The math is nonsense like all math ever

$4,283,508,449.71 = (0.93) x (1 + 0.025) ^1000

Kastrada posted...

Ken Keeler, one of the writers on the show, has a PhD in mathematics. So the math in the show will always be accurate.

Edit: He also had to make up a proof to have the body switch episode make mathematical sense.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Prisoner_of_Benda

That's pretty awesome, actually. I always felt like it was a smarter-than-average show lol

Gobstoppers12 posted...

That's pretty awesome, actually. I always felt like it was a smarter-than-average show lol

Futurama = made by a physicist
Spongebob = made by a marine biologist

Scientists need to make more cartoons lol

Mew posted...

Scientists need to make more cartoons lol

Idk. Godzilla Singular Point was written by a physist and 90% of the dialogue was him just jerking himself off.

The tomboy was waifu material, though that was irrelevant to the science

Gobstoppers12 posted...

He starts with $0.93 and has a yearly interest rate of 2.5% compounding over 1,000 years.

The show says it comes to $4.3 billion.

That sounds insane, but 1,000 is a lot of years, so it could be accurate. I'm too lazy to figure out how to do math (or to do a Bing search). Does anybody know?

It's very much correct.

@DrPrimemaster already posted the exact calculation, which is A = Pe^rt.

The math is nonsense like all math ever

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Im sure a mule farmer such as himself knows his worth.

If the show was actually realistic they would've said the bank charged him a $7 fee for having a low balance and then charged him a daily fee of $20 for having a negative balance for 1000 years and now he owes like $7.3 million

That scene just always make me wonder two things: how much $4.3 billion would even be worth in the year 3,000, and how many people could exploit that because a lot of people from 2,000 were frozen in the show.

Irony posted...

The math is nonsense like all math ever

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Wasn't the world attack/destroyed two times in those thousand years? I'm surprised that his account remained intact.

Kajagogo posted...

Wasn't the world attack/destroyed two times in those thousand years? I'm surprised that his account remained intact.

Im more surprised that it is the same bank after all that time.

Kim_Seong-a posted...

The tomboy was waifu material, though that was irrelevant to the science

Was it, though?

Also the bank wouldve confiscated the funds due to inactivity or suspected death of owner he aint get no $4.3 million irl lol

Interest rates could go up and down enough over 1000 years enough to fudge the numbers to whatever amount they want

LowRyder2005 posted...

@DrPrimemaster already posted the exact calculation, which is A = Pe^rt.

Actually, they used the normal compound interest formula: A = P(1 + r/n)^(nt)

Yours is for continuous compound interest.

Hayame_Zero posted...

how much $4.3 billion would even be worth in the year 3,000

the money that was used seemed to have as much worth as in the modern day.

like, in the one episode where Fry was able to buy a cup of coffee for three dollars (and drank about 100)

Mew posted...

Futurama = made by a physicist
Spongebob = made by a marine biologist

Scientists need to make more cartoons lol

You're telling me a marine biologist wrote the whole sugar daddy/sugar baby dynamic between Pearl and Mr Krabs? Wonder what else dude was into?

Suolevram posted...

You're telling me a marine biologist wrote the whole sugar daddy/sugar baby dynamic between Pearl and Mr Krabs? Wonder what else dude was into?

How did you come to that conclusion?

I do wonder with inflation over 1000 years how much that would be worth in todays money?

If that 93 cent say, buys him a small bottle of milk in 2000. 4.3 billion 1000 years in the future should still only buy him the same bottle milk.

Math is one of those things people just take with faith, like open source software. Like you could examine it and determine if its true, but why bother? Just copy and paste

JaiCSC posted...

I do wonder with inflation over 1000 years how much that would be worth in todays money?

Probably around 93 cents, since the average rate of inflation is pretty close to that.

ViewtifulGrave posted...

How did you come to that conclusion?

Think about it. Everyone else has parents that look just like them. SpongeBob has Sponge parents, Patrick has starfish parents, even Squidward has a squid mother. Mr Krabs had crab parents; all of these characters have had their parents on the show, except for Pearl.

She always asks Krabs for money. She always calls him "Daddy" and not dad. All the signs are there.

Gobstoppers12 posted...

That's pretty awesome, actually. I always felt like it was a smarter-than-average show lol

There are a lot of incredibly smart people who did that show. Listening to the commentary tracks on the episodes was great.