jiggs
11-10-2008, 04:28 PM
Subject: Numbers Zimbabweans Need to learn!
NumberZeros Figures
One01
Thousand 3 1,000
Million 6 1,000,000
Billion 9 1,000,000,000
Trillion 12 1,000,000,000,000
Quadrillion 15 1,000,000,000,000,000
Quintillion 18 1,000,000,000,000,000,000
Hexillion 21 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000
Heptillion 24 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000
Octillion 27 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000
Nonillion 30 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000
Decillion 33 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000
Unodecillion 36 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000
Duodecillion 39 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000, 000
Triodecillion 421,0000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,0 00,000,000
Quadecillion451,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,00 0,000,000,000,000,000,000
Quintdecillion481,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000, 000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000
Hexdecillion511,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,00 0,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000
To be as wealthy as Bill Gates, at the moment you only need ZW$1,680,000,000,000,000,000 One quintillion six hunderd and eighty quadrillion ( or US$56,000,000,000. US$ Fifty six billion) small change if you wish to read on!!
The Hungarian Pengo during and just after World War II had hexillions. It cannot be confirmed if notes followed inflation all the way, or if the currency was revalued by dropping 0's like Zimbabwe, but values at one point reached 22 digits, being the world record. Gono hasn't even got close yet, even if we get back the three zero's we lost, our $10 million note would only be a $10 billion note. A whopping 15 zeros to go to hit the hexillion, and sixty zeros to go to the zillion. Will we get there? It is estimated there could not have even been a decillion in circulation when the Hungarians scrapped the currency.
To give you an idea of the magnitude of these numbers, in US$ terms if one had one hexillion dollars and shared it equally with every living person on earth (6,6bn people), each person would get US$151,5 trillion. It seems it is not possible to find out how much US $ is in circulation but the figure is likely to be no more than one quadrillion.. (15 zeros's) One quadrillion dollars in the world shared out equally would give every living person US$151,500. This is currently ZW$ Z$4,545,000,000,000, each (4,5 trillion zim dollars), or the value of a three bedroom house in Harare . Even if every living Zimbabwean was given this amount, it only totals Z$16,685,500,000,000,000,000 (16,6 Quintillion), This total is still three zeros short of one hexillion, which couldn't even buy the poor Hungarian a loaf of bread. RBZ would have to print 1,668,550,000,000 x ZW$10,000,000 notes. This would be 3,3 billion "bricks" of ten million dollar notes. (2,400,000 tons of notes, 80,000 x 30 ton trucks of paper), Even with 80% unemployment the average Zimbabwean needs a minimum ofUS$20 per month to survive (based on a loaf of bread per day). With a population of 13 million, to achieve this, Gono needs to have two quadrillion dollars in circulation (298 million x 10million dollar notes, 300 tonnes of paper). This would give each person 16 notes each and will only be enough to buy them a loaf of bread each day for a month. WE STILL HAVE $200,000 NOTES IN CIRCULATION.
To put us in the same boat as the Hungarians of world war II, each Zimbo would need 180 hexillions a month to survive on a loaf of bread a day. This would require 2,3 nonillions to be in circulation. This in total is only a measly 30 zeros, this means in "hyper inflation" terms we are only just off the starting blocks!!!
NumberZeros Figures
One01
Thousand 3 1,000
Million 6 1,000,000
Billion 9 1,000,000,000
Trillion 12 1,000,000,000,000
Quadrillion 15 1,000,000,000,000,000
Quintillion 18 1,000,000,000,000,000,000
Hexillion 21 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000
Heptillion 24 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000
Octillion 27 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000
Nonillion 30 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000
Decillion 33 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000
Unodecillion 36 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000
Duodecillion 39 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000, 000
Triodecillion 421,0000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,0 00,000,000
Quadecillion451,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,00 0,000,000,000,000,000,000
Quintdecillion481,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000, 000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000
Hexdecillion511,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,00 0,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000
To be as wealthy as Bill Gates, at the moment you only need ZW$1,680,000,000,000,000,000 One quintillion six hunderd and eighty quadrillion ( or US$56,000,000,000. US$ Fifty six billion) small change if you wish to read on!!
The Hungarian Pengo during and just after World War II had hexillions. It cannot be confirmed if notes followed inflation all the way, or if the currency was revalued by dropping 0's like Zimbabwe, but values at one point reached 22 digits, being the world record. Gono hasn't even got close yet, even if we get back the three zero's we lost, our $10 million note would only be a $10 billion note. A whopping 15 zeros to go to hit the hexillion, and sixty zeros to go to the zillion. Will we get there? It is estimated there could not have even been a decillion in circulation when the Hungarians scrapped the currency.
To give you an idea of the magnitude of these numbers, in US$ terms if one had one hexillion dollars and shared it equally with every living person on earth (6,6bn people), each person would get US$151,5 trillion. It seems it is not possible to find out how much US $ is in circulation but the figure is likely to be no more than one quadrillion.. (15 zeros's) One quadrillion dollars in the world shared out equally would give every living person US$151,500. This is currently ZW$ Z$4,545,000,000,000, each (4,5 trillion zim dollars), or the value of a three bedroom house in Harare . Even if every living Zimbabwean was given this amount, it only totals Z$16,685,500,000,000,000,000 (16,6 Quintillion), This total is still three zeros short of one hexillion, which couldn't even buy the poor Hungarian a loaf of bread. RBZ would have to print 1,668,550,000,000 x ZW$10,000,000 notes. This would be 3,3 billion "bricks" of ten million dollar notes. (2,400,000 tons of notes, 80,000 x 30 ton trucks of paper), Even with 80% unemployment the average Zimbabwean needs a minimum ofUS$20 per month to survive (based on a loaf of bread per day). With a population of 13 million, to achieve this, Gono needs to have two quadrillion dollars in circulation (298 million x 10million dollar notes, 300 tonnes of paper). This would give each person 16 notes each and will only be enough to buy them a loaf of bread each day for a month. WE STILL HAVE $200,000 NOTES IN CIRCULATION.
To put us in the same boat as the Hungarians of world war II, each Zimbo would need 180 hexillions a month to survive on a loaf of bread a day. This would require 2,3 nonillions to be in circulation. This in total is only a measly 30 zeros, this means in "hyper inflation" terms we are only just off the starting blocks!!!