16. Hyperinflation Syndrome

After WW1, when the German mark had lost it’s value, it took around 8000 to equal the value of a US Dollar. Something as simple as bread would was valued in the billions and the cashiers and bankers that dealt with writing down all the zeros eventually grew dizzy and great confusion.

Besides a compulsion to write endless strings of zeros, individuals that suffered from this condition would reportedly become confused when referring to numbers and would state that they were ten billion years old or had forty trillion children – Wikipedia