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1% is, of course, a ridiculous number. You'd need scientific notation to express how wonderful you would be after 10 years, if you could do that.

To make it more tractable, 1% daily growth, means doubling in about 70 days.

1% _max_ per day might be a good rule of thumb to stop when you’re ahead. 1% _min_ per day would be a death march!