Billionare: When-Will-You-Be-As-Rich-As-Bill-Gates-Calculator
This fun-calculator calculates when your web-visitors will be as rich as Bill Gates. It tells your visitors that they can reach anything with almost nothing. True copy-and-paste installation. No configuration required. Crossbrowser.
Test the script
- Enter the capital you saved up to now (your capital today).
- Estimate the yearly growth of your capital (estimated interest rate).
- Enter the amount you can afford to save per year (rate of saving per year).
Your capital today
$
Estimated interest rate
% per year
Rate of saving per year
$
Configuration
Open your webpage. Paste the following code between
the
<body>
tag and
</body>
tag:
<SCRIPT> <!-- Beginning of JavaScript - // CREDITS: // Billionaire: When-Will-You-Be-As-Rich-As-Bill-Gates-Calculator // by Peter Gehrig and Urs Dudli // Copyright (c) 2002 Peter Gehrig and Urs Dudli. All rights reserved. var whenOneMillion = 0 var whenTenMillion = 0 var whenHunMillion = 0 var whenOneBillion = 0 var whenTenBillion = 0 var whenHunBillion = 0 var flgOneMillion = true var flgTenMillion = true var flgHunMillion = true var flgOneBillion = true var flgTenBillion = true var flgHunBillion = true var alt_kapital = 0 var neu_kapital = 0 var jahres_rate = 0 var zins_satz = 0 var total_kapital = 0 function resetValues(){ whenOneMillion = 0 whenTenMillion = 0 whenHunMillion = 0 whenOneBillion = 0 whenTenBillion = 0 whenHunBillion = 0 flgOneMillion = true flgTenMillion = true flgHunMillion = true flgOneBillion = true flgTenBillion = true flgHunBillion = true alt_kapital = 0 neu_kapital = 0 jahres_rate = 0 zins_satz = 0 total_kapital = 0 document.kapital.jahresrate.value=0 document.kapital.zinssatz.value=0 document.kapital.kapitalheute.value=0 } function kapitalBerechnen(){ jahres_rate = eval(document.kapital.jahresrate.value) zins_satz = eval(document.kapital.zinssatz.value) total_kapital = eval(document.kapital.kapitalheute.value) for (i=1; i<=3000; i++) { if (total_kapital >= 50000000000) {break} neu_kapital= jahres_rate+(jahres_rate*zins_satz/100) alt_kapital = total_kapital+(total_kapital*zins_satz/100) total_kapital = neu_kapital+alt_kapital if (flgOneMillion && total_kapital > 1000000) { whenOneMillion = i flgOneMillion = false } else if (flgTenMillion && total_kapital > 10000000) { whenTenMillion = i flgTenMillion = false } else if (flgHunMillion && total_kapital > 100000000) { whenHunMillion = i flgHunMillion = false } else if (flgOneBillion && total_kapital > 1000000000) { whenOneBillion = i flgOneBillion = false } else if (flgTenBillion && total_kapital > 10000000000) { whenTenBillion = i flgTenBillion = false } else if (flgHunBillion && total_kapital > 50000000000) { whenHunBillion = i flgHunBillion = false } } alert("You will have:\n1 Million in "+whenOneMillion+" yrs\n"+"10 Millions in "+whenTenMillion+" yrs\n"+"100 Millions in "+whenHunMillion+" yrs\n"+"1 Billion in "+whenOneBillion+" yrs\n"+"10 Billion in "+whenTenBillion+" yrs\n"+"\n\nand ..") alert("... you will surpass\nBill Gates in no less than "+whenHunBillion+" yrs\n") resetValues() } // - End of JavaScript - --> </SCRIPT> <form name="kapital"> Your capital today: <input type="text" name="kapitalheute" size="15">$<br> Estimated interest rate: <input type="text" name="zinssatz" size="5" >% per year<br> Rate of saving per year: <input type="text" name="jahresrate" size="15">$<br> <input type=button value="calculate" name="calculate" onClick="kapitalBerechnen()"> <input type="button" value="clear" name="reset" onClick="resetValues()"> </form>