a T-Shirt costs 3 billion dollars in Zimbabwe

[CptStern]

...no really:

oh and 3 eggs costs 100 hundred billion dollars!!! $100 000,000,000

hyperinflation within a few short weeks from $10 to buy a loaf of bread to 3 billion for the same thing


still think our economy is bad?


http://humorland.wordmess.net/20081025/what-the-real-crisis-is-like/

 

[Mellish]

Oh god. D:

 

[Tarkus]

 

[<RJMC>]

in before solaris saying its cuz developed countryes are doing it on purpose because mugabe is strugling to make his country more independent and the capitalist of evil are doing this to stop that
all because chavez said so

 

[DEATHMASTER]

They just need to print even more money

 

[CptStern]

I'd like to see a trillion dollar bill ..it would have to be 2 feet wide to accomodate all those zeros

 

[mechanicallizard]

i have about 8 000 billion zimbabwe dollars in my cupboard. they used to come in 100 billion dollar notes,
but they changed it a few weeks back for whatever reason. here in zambia they sell them as souvenirs to tourists. we bought 100 billion notes for about $2 each.

you needed approx ten (TEN) $100 billion notes to buy a loaf of bread not too long ago.

 

[mechanicallizard]

we havent yet found a calculator that can handle the numbers. belive me weve tried

 

[Pulse]

Now imagine if the Heavy had to fight in Zimbabwe; four hundred thousand US dollars to fire Sasha for twelve seconds. That roughly equates to... a very silly amount.

 

[Escaep]

Bill Gates should just buy the whole country.

 

[DEATHMASTER]

So what if you just keep all these billions until the inflation is over? Then won't you be filthy rich? Or more smartly they will have new currency accepted only.

 

[mechanicallizard]

i might sell them on ebay or something when im older . they ll be collectable and all that

 

[CyberPitz]

I'll take one!

 

[theotherguy]

They just need to print even more money

Weren't you the one in the stock market thread saying, "Just print more money!!!"

Yeah, well, this is the problem with that.

 

[Druckles]

No, they didn't print enough.

What they tried to do was stick bigger numbers on the same note.

What you have to do is just print more of the same notes.

 

[Raziaar]

It's okay, because even the poorest person is a trillionaire.

 

[Druckles]

Thus no discrimination due to wealth.

 

[RakuraiTenjin]

Best post evar.

 

[The Monkey]

So what if you just keep all these billions until the inflation is over? Then won't you be filthy rich? Or more smartly they will have new currency accepted only.

When in doubt, always do what the Nazis did.

 

[Saturos]

I'd like to see a trillion dollar bill ..it would have to be 2 feet wide to accomodate all those zeros

It would probably be written in scientific notation to save paper. :> Instead of 1,000,000,000,000, it would be 1.0x10(12) on all four corners. (I don't think I did that right though)

 

[Gemma]

awesome
i want

 

[Raziaar]

it would probably be written in scientific notation to save paper. :> instead of 1,000,000,000,000, it would be 1.0x10(12) on all four corners. (i don't think i did that right though)

1.0E+12

Might be more than one way to do it. I don't know :-/ I'm dumb.

EDIT: Yeah... other ways to do it I guess. You were pretty much right, except for the parentheses.

1.0 x 10^12

 

[Darkside55]

Maybe we can get all the black people to go back to Africa if we tell them everyone over there is a billionaire.

 

[Kula Meenur]

Hyperinflation ftw.

 

[Cormeh]

I work beside a Zimbabwein(wein?) girl and she's brought in the money before to show people. I was like "I'll see your 400,000,000 and raise you ?20, lol"

 

[AiM]

So what if you just keep all these billions until the inflation is over? Then won't you be filthy rich? Or more smartly they will have new currency accepted only.

Won't happen that way since the only realistic solution now is for them to start anew.

 

[Saturos]

1.0E+12

Might be more than one way to do it. I don't know :-/ I'm dumb.

EDIT: Yeah... other ways to do it I guess. You were pretty much right, except for the parentheses.

1.0 x 10^12

If only the forum allowed subscripts. :/

 

[PriNcE oF SpAcE]

When in doubt, always do what the Nazis did.

kill the jews?

 

[Operational]

Don't be silly. He means invade Poland.

 

[soulslicer]

Man, they should put up those notes on ebay or some online black market and sell it, at a higher price. I'm syre there are alot of people who would want to go around showing off a billion dollar bill or more and would want to have the note for the sake of it.