So let me get this right. A loaf of bread in Zimbabwe works out at 50 billion Zimbabwe dollars?! How many zeros are in the bank balance of the Zimbabwean Bill Gates?! 
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subville
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- 2008-07-23 @ 21:51:38
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rithompson
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- 2008-07-23 @ 21:54:24
Absolutely nothing! Just trying to imagine what a mega rich man in Zimbabwe actually has in money!
That is, the Zimbabwean equivalent of a billionaire!
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subville
- http://subville.blog.co.uk/
- 2008-07-23 @ 21:57:58
Ah gotcha ... the //equivalent// of BG.
Soz, got myself in a literal pickle there
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rithompson
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- 2008-07-23 @ 21:58:39
Hehe.
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Znethru
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- 2008-07-23 @ 22:54:31
$1 = Z50,000,000,000
$1,000,000,000 = Z50,000,000,000,000,000,000
(and that's only $1
$100B = Z5,000,000,000,000,000,000,000-
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Znethru
Pro
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- 2008-07-23 @ 22:55:26
above shd read...
[and that's only $1(]-
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Znethru
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- 2008-07-23 @ 22:55:45
it's done it again !
$ 1 B -
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rithompson
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- 2008-07-24 @ 10:05:29
I make that twenty one zeros!
What does it look like in words?!-
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Znethru
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- 2008-07-24 @ 10:40:52
Here's a page that might help! Scroll down just a bit!
http://king.50g.com/programs&tables/tables/table.html-
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rithompson
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- 2008-07-24 @ 10:49:22
Five sextillion!?
I think ridiculous may be an understatement!
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Znethru
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- 2008-07-24 @ 10:54:26
I like this number:
a Quintrigintillion
That's a good one to throw into a conversation casually!-
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rithompson
- http://www.flickr.com/photos/rithompson/
- 2008-07-24 @ 10:56:36
With more zeros than a non mathematician can cope with!
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rithompson
- http://www.flickr.com/photos/rithompson/
- 2008-07-24 @ 10:59:16
Now, I'm going to count how many zeros google put at the bottom of their search pages!
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and to think someone's had the time to think up all those words to describe such humungous amounts!
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rithompson
- http://www.flickr.com/photos/rithompson/
- 2008-07-25 @ 06:51:43
It justifies the existence of mathematicians!
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What has Bill Gates got to do with it?
(soz, I'm not being facetious I really don't know)