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Message Subject What society invented compounding interest on money lent?
Poster Handle Anonymous Coward
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INTEREST
The Hebrew word neshekh is from a root which means "to bite"; thus interest is "something bitten off."

COMPOUND
to put together (parts) so as to form a whole.

So compound interest is to take enough bites to consume the whole thing?

As for your question... <shrug>
 
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