Continuously compounded effective interest rate
Today it's possible to compound interest monthly, daily, and in the limiting case, continuously, meaning that your balance grows by a small amount every instant. To get the formula we'll start out with interest compounded n times per year: FV n = P(1 + r/n) Yn. where P is the starting principal and FV is the future value after Y years. Effective Interest Rate for Continuous Compounding Continuous compounding is present when the duration of e compounding period th becomes infinitely small and , the number of times interest is compounded per period, Continuous Compounding: Some Basics W.L. Silber Because you may encounter continuously compounded growth rates elsewhere, and because you will encounter continuously compounded discount rates when we examine the Black -Scholes option pricing formula, h ere is a brief introduction to what