The real price for a product or service is different to its nominal price. The former is a fictitious one, designed to offset the effect of inflation on pricing. In this article, I derive formulae for forward real pricing and backward real pricing over time periods in which inflation and savings may vary. I use the formulae to calculate histories of the real, nominal and real per-capita Gross Domestic Products for the US over a span of about a century.

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