Hello,
My apologies if this has been brought up previously. I have tried searching the archives for TVM, penny and HP50g, but with no obviously relevant hits.
The brilliant paper "Mathematics written in sand" by W. Kahan contains the example TVM problem "A penny for your thoughts", wherein it is computed the value of a penny deposited every second for a year into an account of 10% annual interest, compounded every second.
The correct answer, according to the paper, is 331667.0067 dollars. This is also the result obtained by Tommi's TVM solver program for the HP42s posted on this site in 2005 (and this problem is one of the examples used in that posting.)
The HP50g TVM application gives me the answer 541877.3438, which is so far off the mark that I suspect I must be doing something wrong.
I'm setting variables as follows:
n = 3600*24*365 = 31536000
I%YR = 10/n = 3.17097919838e-6
PV = 0
PMT = -0.01
P/YR = 1
End mode
Solving for FV gives the above 514877.3438 as result.
Tips?
--Tom G