Sorry, fucked that up because I’m always confused by numbers bigger than a million in English. In German, it was a 1 Billion coin, and a German Billion is a trillion in English. So it was 1 trillion mark coin.
(A German Milliarde is an English billion (10^9), a German Billion is an English trillion (10^12) and a German Billiarde is an English quadrillion (10^15). Hope I got it right now).
I think you had it right just by leaving it at billiard. But yeah, look at that Traditional British column—Millions to thousand millions; to billions to thousand billions; to trillions…:eek:
Oops I see you put trillion then later quadrillion. It was the latter, right?
No, I looked it up again (in the wiki link you provided). The coin had a value of 10^12 marks, that’s “eine Billion” in German and a trillion in English.
I managed to find one. The Cambodian riel’s lowest denomination: 100 = $0.024. They “withdrew” the 50 in 2013. There may be something even lower value in another country.
How do you buy the paper, ink, press, pay your labor, etc. to print it? I’ve read that pennies cost more than a penny to mint but of course they last years and years, unlike paper money.
It’s odd they thought so. Refusing to ratify a Constitutional amendment doesn’t exempt a state from compliance if sufficiently many other states do ratify it, and it becomes law.
Then of course there was the famous 10 trillion Zimbabwe Dollar note during their hyperinflation. Has there ever been a note with a higher ratio of denomination to real value?
I recently read when Margaret Mead was asked what the first sign of civilization is in a culture, she responded, ‘a healed femur’. The largest bone in the body, it takes six weeks to heal without medical aid. Someone must hunt and gather for them, bring them food, basically care for them. She said, ‘in survival of the fittest cultures we see no healed femurs.‘
Today I learned that the ancient Greeks used something called an ostrakan to clean themselves after a bowel movement, and I learned this because Ursula Vernon essentially took a dare made by a friend of hers and then tweeted about it all.
What is an ostrakan? It’s a shard from a broken, unglazed teracotta pot. :eek::eek::eek:
I learned today that if JFK had lived to be as old as his mother, he would still be alive today. (I guess this is a matter of simple math and I shouldn’t find it as startling as I did, but it’s one of those facts that makes you realize how simultaneously close and far-off various historical events were.)
I should include the conclusion: She was really careful with it (“I had the steely focus of a raptor is what I’m saying.”), it was surprisingly effective, and she’s not gonna do it again.
But yeah, look at that Traditional British column—Millions to thousand millions; to billions to thousand billions; to trillions…:eek: