>>Or, a story from the guy who plastered our walls, after a brief career in selling southern fruit from a kiosk at the green market. He said he didn't have the imagination for the job. He'd get his fruit in the morning, paid, marked it up outrageously, sold all he had, and the next day he didn't have enough money to pay for the next batch. He didn't have the imagination to picture tomorrow's wholesale price, so no matter how he skinned his customers throughout the day, the next morning he was in the red. So he went into masonry, there you could charge in german marks, because it was off the books.
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>That table only went back to 1995. Do you remember the rates in the early '90s? Was it hyperinflation like Venezuela is suffering now (Forbes claims 80,000% in 2018)? https://www.forbes.com/sites/stevehanke/2019/01/01/venezuelas-hyperinflation-hits-80000-per-year-in-2018/
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>Whoah - this article claims it was "beyond calculation": https://www.baltimoresun.com/news/bs-xpm-1993-07-30-1993211045-story.html
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>Wikipedia claims it was 8.51 x 10^29 percent per year (!) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yugoslav_dinar

That's the year that doesn't count. When calculating the average of anything money-wise, that year is skipped. The numbers didn't make sense. We actually stopped reading the digits around that summer, and started gauging only the length of the amount.

Around 16th of december, when there was the last big denomination (by 6 digits) I had a case where a few weeks later a customer wanted to put into the ledger the amount they paid to their workers as commute compensation, but to put it before that date, recalculated from the current amount. The total was so big that it threw the whole year above the 15,5 digits precision, so the ledger wouldn't total anymore, because anything between that point and the denomination was longer than 15 digits and had zeros at the lower end. Convinced them to move it to a few days later and hence write it with six digits less, and bingo, we had a balance. (in true sense, not as when they say "you have a balance" and mean "you have a disbalance")