For a while now I have been uploading pretty graphs reflecting the rising inflation rate in Zimbabwe. Most have been used by online CitJ sites, however now I am stuck. I can’t get the graph to actually look impressive. There are so many zero’s that the numbers are shortened automatically, and because of the immense difference in values the former rates (230 000 000%) look puny now…
This morning, the Sky News business report estimated the unofficial inflation rate in Zimbabwe to be Ten comma Two Quadrillion Percent. Ok, to put that into perspective that is a 10, followed by a 2, followed by 14 zeros – looks something like this: 10 200 000 000 000 000%
So to put this number into perspective, I found a graphic illustrating what a stack of 1 Quadrillion (U.S.) pennies might look like:
http://www.cato.org/zimbabwe
Cato put Zimbabwe Inflation at 89.7 Sextillion Percent (89.7×10^21%) two weeks ago.
that is absolutely insane! can’t keep up with all these numbers!!!!!
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