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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Troodon, post: 401091, member: 4626&quot;]Been collecting hyperinflation notes lately and one thing that keeps coming up is that a lot of countries used to (and some still do) use the &quot;long form&quot; of counting, where 1000 million is 1 milliard and 1 million million is a billion, and so forth.&nbsp; The US uses what most are familiar with, where 1000 million = 1 billion, 1000 billion = 1 trillion, etc.&nbsp; The UK and most of the rest of the English-speaking world adopted that method eventually.&nbsp; A lot of Europe still used the long form method up until recently (I have a Yugoslavian note denominate 500,000,000,000 dinars that called it 500 millard rather than 500 billion).</p><p><br /></p><p>The highest nominal denomination of any piece of paper currency was a 1946 Hungarian note denominated 100 million billion pengo (that&#039;s long form; spelled out it is 100,000,000,000,000,000,000 pengo, or in short form, 100 quintillion pengo!).&nbsp; One was printed 10 times higher than that even, but Hungary switched over to the forint before it was due to be released.</p><p><br /></p><p>Most zeroes on any note actually released was a 1993 Yugoslavian 500,000,000,000 dinar note; there have been higher denominations but any higher have been denominated just by words and not had the numerals spelled out.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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