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$100 will to-day buy the right to $4 a year forever, and a
year hence this right to $4 annually may be sold on a 3%,
basis. It will therefore fetch $133.33. The investor will
consequently receive in all, at the end of this first year, a total
of $4 4 $1331, or $1371. Hence the rate of interest in the
sense of a premium will be for that year 374%. In succeeding
 years the rate of interest, considered either as a premium or
a price, will evidently be 3%.

§ 5 (ro Cum. XII, § 6)

Mathematical Relations between the Rates of Interest as a Premium and
as a Price

In general, if we let ¢, represent the rate of interest in the
premium sense for this year, i, for next year, 4; for the third
year, and so on, whereas jy, j, and js etc., represent the
rates of interest in the price sense for the same successive
years, the following relations between the ¢’s and j’s may be

 

proved: —
1 1 1 :
re fe roy sf eee + oo 84 ADE ==1+
 A+) A+’
1 1 4 + +. sodint

Fr 3 =<+ E : : .
144 A+a)A+ih) A+a)A +a) +h)
1 1 1
Tt dL
144; A+4)* A+4)°
1 1 1 :
~t 2 = + g = ——-... ad inf.
144  (A+i)A+id) A+i)A +i) +15)
1 1 1
— tt +
144s (+44) Q+0)° :
1 1 :
- - de Jind int.
+a Armd +n  A+ud+od+i)
ete.
These equations may be said to determine jj, as a peculiar
sort of mean of the magnitudes 4, ta #, - - - ad inf., and ja 28 a
similar mean of 4, fy 4 - - - ad inf., ete. Their proof,
which is simple, is left to those readers who are interested in
mathematics. ai
The preceding equations express the values of the j’s in

ad inf. =

. ad inf. =