Who Would Win?? (1 + 1/n)ⁿ
A limit staged as a matchup: (1 + 1/n)ⁿ.
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Cartoon by Ben Orlin, Math with Bad Drawings. https://cartoons.mathwithbaddrawings.com/2025-09-10-who-would-win--e/ (CC BY-NC 4.0)Transcript
lim_{n→∞} (1 + 1/n)ⁿ: TEENY-TINY GROWTH RATE vs. MEGA-LONG TIME IN WHICH TO GROW. WINNER: weirdly enough, e