Bernoulli noticed that this sequence approaches a limit (the force of interest) for more and smaller compounding intervals. Compounding weekly yields $2.692597..., while compounding daily yields $2.714567..., just two cents more. Using as the number of compounding intervals, with interest of 100%/ in each interval, the limit for large is the number that Euler later named ; with "continuous" compounding, the account value will reach $2.7182818... More generally, an account that starts at $1, and yields (1+) dollars at Compound interest, will yield dollars with continuous compounding.