Ten fucking zeros?
Get your maths right, people. Governor Gideon Gono (aka GGG) has slashed TEN zeros from the Zimbabwean currency (in addition to the the three he removed last time0.
Now, you’d think this would be done in multiples of three. That would make accounting sense, wouldn’t it? COMMON sense, really. You do your maths in grades of threes, from thousands, millions and so forth.
But not our Reserve Bank, no. In a collosal effort to confuse an entire nation (not forgetting an entire planet of bemused onlookers) they remove TEN.
So, in essence, your 100,000,000,000.00 (a hundred billion) becomes ten dollars. A trillion becomes (let’s see, one, two …) 100 bucks, so to have a thousand Zimbabwe dollars you need ten trillion right now.
Wow. You couldn’t make it up.
