Zimbabwe: Inflation at 231 million percent
Sunday, January 18th, 2009Did Zimbabwe really just introduce a 100 trillion dollar banknote? WTF?
That looks like this: Z$ 100,000,000,000,000.00
There are more dollars in one of these notes than there are atoms in the observable universe. (Just kidding).
Seriously, they need to be careful because when you pass ‘trillion’, you might as well just say ‘zillion’ because nobody is going to want to use ‘quadrillion’, or even know what it means.
This comment from Hacker News is also interesting:
Remember that Zimbabwe redemoninated in mid 2008 and took 10 zeroes off the bills, and it hardly seems worth mentioning but they took 3 zeroes off in 2006. That makes this new bill 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 which may or may not be 1 nonillion dollars. It’s a lot of zeroes, I may have missed a few one way or another.
My Million Zimbabwe Dollar Homepage site is completely worthless now - good thing I sold the pixels when I did.


This past week, Zimbabwe has introduced a 100 Billion Dollar Bill, which can buy about two loaves of bread (but interestingly they are 