Reply to: how can I turn £10 into £11 ?

[Platypus]

Count in base 9.

By far the best answer yet!!

[thunderlizard]

Charge a £1 compulsory booking fee on top. Everybody else does.

[ChimpMaster]

Hi,

How can I turn £10 into £11?

Invest it in a bank account, like the Nationwide E-Savings Plus which pays ~2% a year.

Within 5 years your £10 will become a mighty £11.

[lukemg]

What timescale do you require ? My Fidelity China fund was up 10% in a month or 2 after opening and my BP shares are up 24%...

[Sysman]

I prefer your calculator to mine (Windows ME calculator), which only made it: £12,833,055,803,133,526.97
The Windows XP calculator agreed.

and a Python 3.1 shell made it £12,833,055,803,133,905.

Excel 2000 agrees with you.

OpenOffice 1.1 makes it £12,833,055,803,133,900 (as did version 3.2 too).

How are you supposed to do sensible fiscal planning when the tools do not provide accurate answers?

microsoft+calculator+bug

[mudskipper]

Hi,

How can I turn £10 into £11?

Count in base 9.

[RichardCranium]

That's true if you're increasing your stash by £1 per day.

However, if you increase your original £10 by 10% per day, you'd have a much more respectable £12,833,055,803,133,800 after 365 days.

I prefer your calculator to mine (Windows ME calculator), which only made it: £12,833,055,803,133,526.97
The Windows XP calculator agreed.

and a Python 3.1 shell made it £12,833,055,803,133,905.

Excel 2000 agrees with you.

OpenOffice 1.1 makes it £12,833,055,803,133,900 (as did version 3.2 too).

How are you supposed to do sensible fiscal planning when the tools do not provide accurate answers?

[RichardCranium]

How can I turn £10 into £11?

Find a forum populated by intelligent over-achievers with OCD who specialise in problem solving in their work and also have business acumen, and pose it as a problem for them.

Then just walk away and watch the suggestions roll in...

[Paddy]

Go to the casino. Bet £2 on each of two columns, + £2 on each two dozens. You will have a minimum of £11 (unless you are very unlucky)

[PRC1964]

There is one way, betting arbitrage. I had it explained to me and it made perfect sense but when I come to describe to others it comes out as total bollocks. Well, here goes;

You search for bets on unfancied, boring contests, say for example on the outcome of Peterborough vs Lincoln footy or something and collect all the odds from the various bookies.

You'll find that cos it's lower league, no-one's really bothered about setting the odds totally consistently and you'll find that sometimes for example one bookie has Peterborough to win 1 to 5 and another has it 1 to 6. So you bet on all possible outcomes but taking the best odds where they're in you're favour. So if you stake enough you can make 10 quid into 11, or break even, but you can't lose, as there is no betting tax nowadays.

The only flaw is that I've got the above wrong which is very possible, must get my mate to write it down and that if you do do it, it's a lot of work searching for the odds, placing the bet etc, or the bookie pulls the odds at the last minute, all for a 5/10% gain. But if you have the cash, and the time, might be better than 0.5% interest in the bank of whatever...

I spent a few months working on something like this about 6 years ago. It was based on looking at online betting where you can both bet and lay. As long as you treat it all as pure data and don't even look at the name of the horse/jockey but merely and what the market is doing we reckoned you could consistently win. We even ran it through trials for a few months and always came out in profit. Sadly the profit was so low that we'd have probably been better off just signing on the dole.

[Doggy Styles]

why on earth would someone want to turn 10 quid into eleven quid.

I can understand turning one quid into ten
or no quid into one

or even 100 quid into a million

but a tenner into 11 ?????

what can you buy for a round eleven quid ???????

If I could do that every day, I'd turn £10 into £375 by this time next year.

Then I could buy that second-hand Ford Cortina I promised myself in 1980.

[RichardCranium]

EO,

when you're driving that van as escort to SutYou01's attemp at bicycle-induced heart failure, you could make a few quid on the side. You just need the marketing material...



It just needs a £11 investment.

[RichardCranium]

what can you buy for a round eleven quid ???????

Just what every techno-squaddie needs: a camouflaged USB optical mouse with combat mouse pad.



Don't say you don't want one.

[Zippy]

what can you buy for a round eleven quid ???????

Round here that would be two pints.

[EternalOptimist]

why on earth would someone want to turn 10 quid into eleven quid.

I can understand turning one quid into ten
or no quid into one

or even 100 quid into a million

but a tenner into 11 ?????

what can you buy for a round eleven quid ???????