>I tried Google search on "world record inflation" and got a bunch of stuff about baloons :)
Great! Inflating baloons! I would never have thought about that...
>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).
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>Once you automated all three for each app involving money, you were in the saddle.
And then, of course, is the issue of converting "old" values to "present value" - in case it was requested.
Difference in opinions hath cost many millions of lives: for instance, whether flesh be bread, or bread be flesh; whether whistling be a vice or a virtue; whether it be better to kiss a post, or throw it into the fire... (from Gulliver's Travels)
