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kingofpandora on Jan 27, 2022 | parent | context | favorite | on: In Argentina, inflation is a way of life

Turkey did a 1,000,000:1 conversion a while back. Before that you could almost say that the local currency was millions.

- "How much is this book?"

- "9 million"

- "Here's 10 million"

- "And one million in change, sir"

OK, so that only worked up to a certain value. No one would say their rent was "1,000 million". In that case, the currency was billions!

latchkey on Jan 28, 2022 [–]

In Vietnam, the largest bill is 500,000 vnd, about $20 USD.

Everything there is in the millions as well.

tren on Jan 28, 2022 | [–]

I've got a 100 trillion dollar bill from Zimbabwe, I think it was worth about 30c at the time of issue

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