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Zimbabwe's old quadrillions worth more online and on streets

Discussion in 'Funny Stuff' started by Rye83, Jun 13, 2015.

  1. Rye83

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    HARARE (Reuters) - On online auction site eBay, a 100 trillion Zimbabwean dollar note is a collector's item fetching up to $35, a small fortune compared with the 40 U.S. cents on offer from the central bank as it seeks to officially bury the worthless currency.
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    Bank accounts with balances of up to 175 quadrillion Zimbabwean dollars - that's 175,000,000,000,000,000 - will be paid $5. Those with higher balances will get a rate of $1 to 35 quadrillion Zimbabwean dollars.

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    How does such currency denominations that high even come to exist in the first place?! Just knock off a couple zeros FFS. Did they just want to feel like they were rich when they read their bank balance?
     
  2. Hans Boot

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    If a country has an annual inflation rate of 500%, zeros need to be added to banknotes on a weekly basis. Germany had the same issue during WWII. Knocking off zeros is a costly affair - the local Central Bank has a budget of 20 million US $ for this last operation.....
     
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    Is it true why German written language has the words joined up so few spaces in between the words, is to save space on the paper. like Rindfleischetikettierungsüberwachungsaufgabenübertragungsgesetz :singing:
     
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  4. Jack Peterson

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    Go on Jim I will ask, Translation Please?

    JP:bag: :pompus:
     
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    [QUOTE="jimeve Rindfleischetikettierungsüberwachungsaufgabenübertragungsgesetz :singing:[/QUOTE]

    gesundheit
     
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    are you ready for this roughly translated
    cattle marking and beef labeling supervision duties delegation law
     
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    :thumbsup: Hmmmmmmmmmm makes you wonder Eh! and they say English is a hard language to understand.:wink:

    JP :bag: :whistling:
     
  8. Dave199

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    In Germanic languages it is generally if it is one thing, then it is one word. True of Afrikaans here.