For those who marketear about inflation in game
By
EvilGeko,
Posted on: 2011-01-02 05:44 in The Market and Inventions
That article said a loaf of bread cost 700 million Zimbabwe dollars at the height of their monetary crisis in 2008. If we estimate that a loaf of bread cost 2 USD, and I use the figure cited by the spammer standing in Atlas Park WW, that means 1 inf now is worth approximately 3.15 Zimbabwe dollars circa 2008. I don't even know what to say about that.
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... Numerical literacy: It happens to other people.
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Scientists and physicists estimate the number of atoms in the universe at 10 to the power of 80 10 followed by 80 zeros. During the worst of Zimbabwe's economic meltdown and hyperinflation, Zimbabwe's highest money denominations were logged at 10 to the power of 25 10 followed by 25 zeros or the equivalent of nearly one third of the number of atoms estimated in the universe. |
Oh, now that's funny.
Edit: Wait, I can't find that last bit in the article. Did they remove it?
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It's right after the line about a loaf of bread costing 700 million dollars.
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No, I see the part about 10^80 and 10^25. In the version I'm downloading there's no (longer?) a comparison of the two.
Blue
American Steele: 50 BS/Inv
Nightfall: 50 DDD
Sable Slayer: 50 DM/Rgn
Fortune's Shadow: 50 Dark/Psi
WinterStrike: 47 Ice/Dev
Quantum Well: 43 Inv/EM
Twilit Destiny: 43 MA/DA
Red
Shadowslip: 50 DDC
Final Rest: 50 MA/Rgn
Abyssal Frost: 50 Ice/Dark
Golden Ember: 50 SM/FA
Man, that is not good journalistic integrity. You make an edit, you're supposed to say what you edited and why. Coward.
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Yep. Pretty pathetic. And it's from AP. I need to get after my sister-in-law about this. She works at AP. |
Originally Posted by seebs
Man, that is not good journalistic integrity. You make an edit, you're supposed to say what you edited and why. Coward.
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I still think that's a hilarious error for someone to make. And last I saw, they still hadn't fixed the error of claiming that 10^N is a 10 with N zeroes after it. (No, it's a *1* with N zeroes after it.)
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Wait. You mean 10 isn't 1/3rd of 1,000?
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Originally Posted by seebs
... Numerical literacy: It happens to other people.
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Originally Posted by Iggy_Kamakaze
Nice build
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Funny thing is, my blog entry about it offered to give the man four tens in exchange for a thousand dollars. As often as he wants. I am just that generous.
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Originally Posted by Obitus
Wait. You mean 10 isn't 1/3rd of 1,000?
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Four tens? That's like ... *ticks fingers* $1,300!|
Originally Posted by seebs
Funny thing is, my blog entry about it offered to give the man four tens in exchange for a thousand dollars. As often as he wants. I am just that generous.
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Originally Posted by Iggy_Kamakaze
Nice build
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Even with the explicit comparison edited out, the fact that the two numbers are still included in the article betrays the author's original, face-palm-worthy mistake. Why even mention the number of atoms in the universe at all unless the author thought that the Zimbabwe currency were anywhere near it?|
Originally Posted by UberGuy
No, I see the part about 10^80 and 10^25. In the version I'm downloading there's no (longer?) a comparison of the two.
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The first number is soooooo much higher that it isn't even worth mentioning. It'd be like my saying that I have 13,000 dollars in the bank and then later mentioning just for reference that the United States Government is $13,000,000,000,000 in debt. To call it a non-sequitor is an insult to Pauly Shore (the most random person I can think of).
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Originally Posted by Iggy_Kamakaze
Nice build
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Oh, I agree completely. I was just making sure that the quote had really been in the original article, and I wasn't just misreading something sardonic as the original quote. Coming back to this thread after a while I see I was reading it right.
What's funny is I did didn't even catch the 10 and N zeroes bit. I read what he meant and not what he said.
Blue
American Steele: 50 BS/Inv
Nightfall: 50 DDD
Sable Slayer: 50 DM/Rgn
Fortune's Shadow: 50 Dark/Psi
WinterStrike: 47 Ice/Dev
Quantum Well: 43 Inv/EM
Twilit Destiny: 43 MA/DA
Red
Shadowslip: 50 DDC
Final Rest: 50 MA/Rgn
Abyssal Frost: 50 Ice/Dark
Golden Ember: 50 SM/FA
I didn't catch the 10+zeroes thing either, until someone else had pointed it out.
But hey, I was only off by a factor of ten -- that's several quintillion quintillion times better than the AP writer!
AP is keeping the casual purple warshade from getting Zimbabwe lewt. 
total kick to the gut
This is like having Ra's Al Ghul show up at your birthday party.
My wife is a journalist so I get to go to their events once in awhile. Math is not these people's strong suit.
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I kinda like my casual purple warshade, not that I ever play that toon.
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Originally Posted by SwellGuy
AP is keeping the casual purple warshade from getting Zimbabwe lewt.
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http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110102/...e_numbers_game
Infinity and Victory mostly
dUmb, etc.
lolz PvP anymore, Market PvP for fun and profit