Formula for continuously compounding interest | Finance & Capital Markets | Khan Academy

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Finance and capital markets on Khan Academy: This is an older tutorial (notice the low-res, bad handwriting) about one of the coolest numbers in reality and how it falls out of our innate desire to compound interest continuously.

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