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  2. List of price index formulas - Wikipedia

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    The Marshall-Edgeworth index, credited to Marshall (1887) and Edgeworth (1925), [11] is a weighted relative of current period to base period sets of prices. This index uses the arithmetic average of the current and based period quantities for weighting. It is considered a pseudo-superlative formula and is symmetric. [12]

  3. Alcohol measurements - Wikipedia

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    3 ⁄ 4 of an Imperial pint; a schooner is an imperial half pint [285 mL] in South Australia. pint (US) / large glass (US) 473.18 mL: 1 US pt = 16 US fl oz: 16.65 imp oz: 1 US pint. pint (imp.) 568.26 mL: 19.2 US fl oz: 1 imp. pt = 20 imp oz: Beer sales in Britain and the Commonwealth are based on multiples of 1 ⁄ 3, 1 ⁄ 2, and full ...

  4. Discounted cash flow - Wikipedia

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    Discounted cash flow analysis is widely used in investment finance, real estate development, corporate financial management, and patent valuation. Used in industry as early as the 1700s or 1800s, it was widely discussed in financial economics in the 1960s, and U.S. courts began employing the concept in the 1980s and 1990s.

  5. Standard drink - Wikipedia

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    An imperial pint 570 ml of such lager (at 5.2% ABV) contains almost 3 units of alcohol [33] rather than the oft-quoted 2 units. Stronger beer (6–12%) may contain 2 UK units or more per imperial half pint. A half-litre (500 ml) of standard lager or ale (5%) contains 2.5 UK units.

  6. Rule of 72 - Wikipedia

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    In finance, the rule of 72, the rule of 70 [1] and the rule of 69.3 are methods for estimating an investment's doubling time. The rule number (e.g., 72) is divided by the interest percentage per period (usually years) to obtain the approximate number of periods required for doubling.

  7. Rate of return - Wikipedia

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    The return, or the holding period return, can be calculated over a single period.The single period may last any length of time. The overall period may, however, instead be divided into contiguous subperiods. This means that there is more than one time period, each sub-period beginning at the point in time where the previous one ended. In such a case, where there are

  8. Bootstrapping (finance) - Wikipedia

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    In finance, bootstrapping is a method for constructing a (zero-coupon) fixed-income yield curve from the prices of a set of coupon-bearing products, e.g. bonds and swaps. [ 1 ] A bootstrapped curve , correspondingly, is one where the prices of the instruments used as an input to the curve, will be an exact output , when these same instruments ...

  9. Internal rate of return - Wikipedia

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    The period is usually given in years, but the calculation may be made simpler if is calculated using the period in which the majority of the problem is defined (e.g., using months if most of the cash flows occur at monthly intervals) and converted to a yearly period thereafter. Any fixed time can be used in place of the present (e.g., the end ...