Whole note of mensural notation, and this is the origin of the British name. The American name is a calque of the German . The Catalan, French and Spanish names for the note (meaning "round") derive from the fact that the was distinguished by its round stemless shape, which is true as well of the modern form (in contrast to the double whole note or shorter values with stems). The Greek name means "whole". Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and Vietnamese names mean "whole note". Whole note In music, a whole note (American) or semibreve (British) is a note represented by a hollow oval
Time value of money can be computed as that whose interest equals the annuity payment amount: Note that no money enters or leaves the combined system of endowment principal + accumulated annuity payments, and thus the future value of this system can be computed simply via the future value formula: Initially, before any payments, the present value of the system is just the endowment principal (formula_24). At the end, the future value is the endowment principal (which is the same) plus the future value of the total annuity payments (formula_25). Plugging this back into the equation: Without showing the formal derivation here, the perpetuity