suppose someone offered to pay you one penny on the first day of the month the double your wages each day for 29 more days or $1 million to work on a special
Considering the first offer, you would end up with :
1 + 2 [ 1 - 2^29] [ 1 - 2] = 1073741823 cents = $10,737,418.23
Which is way more than $1 million.....!!!!!!