Panhandling

How much money could you make begging on the streets?

After hearing plenty of stories about "fake" beggars, I decided to mathematically figure out how much one could earn by begging an entire year.

$\sum_{d=1}^{365} \left [\sum_{h=1}^{24} e^{-\left ( \frac{h-12}{6} \right )^2} \right ] \cdot \frac{\sin \left (\frac{d}{7} \right) + 1}{2}$

I am using a bell curve function to find the estimates of earning throughout each day.

Then I use a wave function to find daily earning estimates throughout the week.

After using these two functions to transform the daily earnings, I calculate the summation of an entire year.

I realize that I could use much better functions for estimation, but this was just some quick research.

Finally, if you could find a way to earn $20/hr, you could make $39,030.67 annually according to this formula.