Get Rich Quick

Sounds too good to be true.

But it's not.

Here's how...

There's a minor problem with our economy right now. We're in what's called a recession. I know, I know, it sounds like recess, but words play tricks on you. "Pervading" the landscape doesn't mean you make the mountains into perverts.

Recessions are generally seen as a bad thing... Well unless you've got a furnace or Bunsen burner that can reach 1084.62 °C.

Yep, you got it, the temperature required to melt copper. Nice work paying attention in chemistry. Today's pennies are 97.5% zinc with a thin 2.5% copper outside coating called the "clad". That clad has a melting point of 1084.62 °C which is significantly higher than the 419.6 °C melting point of zinc. So go get yourself a serious furnace.

Well it turns out that it costs 1.73 cents to make a 1 cent penny. With the metal required costing 1.12 cents.

I think you understand where I'm going.

To make 1 million dollars you'll need to melt down and sell the resulting metal from 892,858 pennies.

Or you can start with $100 worth of pennies, melt them, sell them for more pennies and repeat this process 82 times.

Get to it. There's plenty of pennies around so I don't want to hear any complaints.

Disclaimer: This is incredibly illegal. So don't do this.

So what was Anton Beza doing today? A lot of useless math.