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Ok let me be more explicit. This part

  $1,000,000^(1/3) = $100,000^(1/3)(1 + r)

  This simplifies to:

  $100 = (1 + r)
makes absolutely no sense. The LHS should be not only unitless, but equal to the cube root of 10.


yep, you right.

i didn't pay any attention to the maths, just the outcome.

but then i tried to do the maths myself and got hella confused.

turns out i was doing "10^1/3" (3.33) in google instead of "10^(1/3)" (1.154).

so, that's lame - i guess gpt got confused about how to handle the exponential algebra.

so it ends up being something like:

  $1,000,000 = $100,000(1+r)^3

  10 = (1+r)^3

  10^(1/3) = (1+r)

  2.154 = 1+r

  1.154 = r

  R = 115%




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