>>Sorry to disappoint you, but try to find some facts about Yugoslav inflation of 1993. It's been somewhere in trillions of percents - which means that within the last three months, nine zeros had to be removed from the money. New banknotes were printed at about each three weeks. I still have a few of those - the biggest nominal value was 50,000,000,000 dinars, worth about five bucks when it first hit the streets (which was about two days before it was officially published), and after ten days it was worth one pack of cigarettes.
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>Sorry for my ignorance of exact years - I said "non-war-related". Does this apply here? I know Germany had a higher inflation rate than the one I mentioned, after WW-1.

That's really a question. Officially, we were not at war. There were no foreign soldiers on our soil (except of a few UN teams which were based there, but because of the refugees coming in), and there were none of our soldiers operating outside. Those who were were volunteers and "volunteers" in other armies. Some of the money Milosevic stole from the people was surely used in financing the latter, and I'm pretty confident that is or will be proven. Still, most of the money just vanished into making the top 200 families very rich.

I tried Google search on "world record inflation" and got a bunch of stuff about baloons :)

>>Programming was interesting in those days :)
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>Yeah, it was a nightmare here, too - even with the "relatively low" inflation rates.

There were three things you had to automate, or you had to spend a lot of time doing them over and over: first, making money columns wide enough - n(19,2) was pretty common, n(19,0) also; second was the pictures - I usually had something like g_amount="999,999,999,999,999" and in most of the forms and hand-coded reports I had ...picture g_amount; third was the denomination: you had to total everything, add a line item with the negative value of the total, then add the same thing divided by 10, 1000 or 1000000 (depending on how many zeros were removed that time).

Once you automated all three for each app involving money, you were in the saddle.