obvious mol is obvious?

Holey moley!

Did they serve guacamole made from real avogadro's?

Is that in Mollion dollars?

Actually.... Inflation in Zimbabwe is 89.7 sextillion percent, which is .897 X 10^23 %.

If you added 5 or 6 orders of magnitude to account for the $250,000, you would be really close.

At least you were in the right neighborhood, subby. I award you +1 x 10^-6

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mainstreet62:


At least you were in the right neighborhood, subby. I award you +1 x 10-6


Actually, upon further review, you came even closer than I thought, subby. You missed it by a multiple of 0.005, 2-3 orders of magnitude.

$1 US = 12,600,000,000,000,000, or 1.26 x 10¹⁶

so $250,000 US (2.5 x 10⁵) = 3.15 x 10²¹

So you missed by a multiple of 0.52 x 10^-2, or .005.

Therefore, I ugrade your award you +0.005

I applaud you.

*upgrade

/ok I'm done being a math nerd

I have a login name based on the periodic table of the elements, so I'm really getting a kick out of most of these replies.

mainstreet62: *upgrade

/ok I'm done being a math nerd

Thank you! (for being done. not for starting)

Now, how many trucks were used to carry the cash in to pay for this shindig?

Can someone convert that to wheelbarrow loads?

mainstreet62: *upgrade

/ok I'm done being a math nerd

I was told there would be no math!

What is that in real money, like 1 gram of hydrogen?

Snarfangel: Did they serve guacamole made from real avogadro's?

Well Crafted

Am I the only person who wanted to answer their chem teacher's incessant "Now, how many mols is that?" with "I don't know. How many fingers is this?"

Snarfangel: No fair, I thought of it first!

/my ordinals are zero-based

How many farms did he have to confiscate to pay for this?

mainstreet62:

So you missed by a multiple of 0.52 x 10-2, or .005.

Therefore, I ugrade your award you +0.005


Your elaborate calculation was several minutes ago and are thus off by orders of magnitude.

mainstreet62: *upgradeupgrayedd

/ok I'm done being a math nerd

FTFY, sorry, pet peeve.

Jaakobi: What is that in real money, like 1 gram of hydrogen?

A whole gram? That seems optimistic.

If any leader on the planet deserves to be Ceauşescu'd, then this is him.

Was tempted to post a Mussolini execution picture or something, but we all know what a dead dictator looks like.

We really need a Mugabe tag. Once that fark dies, we can still use it for Chavez, Kim, Putin, and Obama.

I had a (horrible massacre of a) test in my physical chemistry class yesterday, and I was kind of planning on not thinking about chemistry all weekend. But, this headline was very funny, so I can forgive you, subby.

Party now, Bob. You won't make it to 86.

A cool mole of ZDs. Or 100,000 coulzimbas.

Zimbabwe lopped off 12 zeros off their currency at the beginning of the month so the conversion rate of the new Zimbabwe dollars printed after February 2nd is about 95 Zimbabwe dollars to a US Dollar. It was in the 40's just a couple of weeks ago.

/I expect Zimbabwe to just give up on having a currency soon and just use the US Dollar unofficially like Ecuador, El Salvador, and East Timor have done with the US Dollar and Kosovo and Montenegro have done with the Euro.

For a good time call Avogadro, 602-1023. That's have my uber Christan chemistry teacher taught us the number.

12349876

I expect Zimbabwe to just give up on having a currency soon and just use the US Dollar unofficially like Ecuador, El Salvador, and East Timor have done with the US Dollar and Kosovo and Montenegro have done with the Euro.

Montenegro, please.

mainstreet62: *upgrade

/ok I'm done being a math nerd

You missed the chemistry joke. 6.022x10^23 is an approximation of Avogadro's Constant, or the number of Carbon-12 atoms it would take to have a mass of 12 grams.

Which is why the following is absolutely hysterical to Chemistry nerds:
Snarfangel: Did they serve guacamole made from real avogadro's?



But... you didn't get it. Fail.

12349876: Zimbabwe lopped off 12 zeros off their currency at the beginning of the month so the conversion rate of the new Zimbabwe dollars printed after February 2nd is about 95 Zimbabwe dollars to a US Dollar. It was in the 40's just a couple of weeks ago.

/I expect Zimbabwe to just give up on having a currency soon and just use the US Dollar unofficially like Ecuador, El Salvador, and East Timor have done with the US Dollar and Kosovo and Montenegro have done with the Euro.

Foreign currency has been the unofficial black market standard for a long time now. But any official currency would probably be pegged to the South African Rand, not the pigdog capitalist USD (after all, we're the ones making the currency fail. Just ask Mugabe)

Rhino_man: mainstreet62: *upgrade

/ok I'm done being a math nerd

You missed the chemistry joke. 6.022x10^23 is an approximation of Avogadro's Constant, or the number of Carbon-12 atoms it would take to have a mass of 12 grams.

Which is why the following is absolutely hysterical to Chemistry nerds:
Snarfangel: Did they serve guacamole made from real avogadro's?



But... you didn't get it. Fail.

Which is why Trader Joe's sells an Avigadro-themed guacamole. And an Einstein-themed guac/salsa combo.

12349876: Zimbabwe lopped off 12 zeros off their currency at the beginning of the month so the conversion rate of the new Zimbabwe dollars printed after February 2nd is about 95 Zimbabwe dollars to a US Dollar. It was in the 40's just a couple of weeks ago.


I heard they just gave up and use chickens.

Gothmolly: Montenegro, please.

For the record, Lipton Green Tea with Citrus hurts when it comes out of your nose at roughly the speed of sound. I salute you...

Mugabe is one of those evil bastards that justify the term "needs killing". Why is he still breathing?

deltabourne: 12349876: Zimbabwe lopped off 12 zeros off their currency at the beginning of the month so the conversion rate of the new Zimbabwe dollars printed after February 2nd is about 95 Zimbabwe dollars to a US Dollar. It was in the 40's just a couple of weeks ago.

/I expect Zimbabwe to just give up on having a currency soon and just use the US Dollar unofficially like Ecuador, El Salvador, and East Timor have done with the US Dollar and Kosovo and Montenegro have done with the Euro.

Foreign currency has been the unofficial black market standard for a long time now. But any official currency would probably be pegged to the South African Rand, not the pigdog capitalist USD (after all, we're the ones making the currency fail. Just ask Mugabe)

Zimbabwe to pay soldiers, teachers in US dollars (new window)

Good work, detective!

Rhino_man: mainstreet62: *upgrade

/ok I'm done being a math nerd

You missed the chemistry joke. 6.022x10^23 is an approximation of Avogadro's Constant, or the number of Carbon-12 atoms it would take to have a mass of 12 grams.

Which is why the following is absolutely hysterical to Chemistry nerds:
Snarfangel: Did they serve guacamole made from real avogadro's?



But... you didn't get it. Fail.

You don't have a girlfriend, do you?

I came here to take a break from studying chem... and I found this...

The puns did not disappoint!

Weird, it wasn't always like that...


But, I guess there were other people in charge back then, huh?

Senescent Dawn: Holey moley!

bastard.

vroomazoom: Zimbabwe to pay soldiers, teachers in US dollars (new window)

Good work, detective!

Psst... that doesn't make it the official currency

deltabourne: vroomazoom: Zimbabwe to pay soldiers, teachers in US dollars (new window)

Good work, detective!

Psst... that doesn't make it the official currency

Psst... the implication was that Mugabe would not be tied to the US currency because he believes or at least expresses the belief that the U.S. is responsible for the current economic crisis in Zimbabwe. Paying state employees with US currency runs counter to that notion.

On the plus side they are not being oppressed by white colonials.

/Of course they were the breadbasket of Africa and had no cholera etc...

Was Avogadro invited?

nunyabidness: obvious mol is obvious?

I C-12 what you did there.

Rhino_man: mainstreet62: *upgrade

/ok I'm done being a math nerd

You missed the chemistry joke. 6.022x10^23 is an approximation of Avogadro's Constant, or the number of Carbon-12 atoms it would take to have a mass of 12 grams.

Which is why the following is absolutely hysterical to Chemistry nerds:
Snarfangel: Did they serve guacamole made from real avogadro's?



But... you didn't get it. Fail.

NERD FIGHT!

/dekniltoh

$250,000 USA would be 8.75 e 21 (sextillion) Zim-dollars, but they whacked off 9 zeros last month so in actuality, only(sic?) 8.75 e 12, or trillion.

That number is only good for 5 minutes.

CORRECTION TO PREVIOUS POST:

They whacked off 12 zeroes, not 9 as I previously stated, but that is the second time they have done this, so it is actually 25 zeroes.

The thing I like about this thread is, you can be off by a factor of 1,000,000 to one and it is still close enough.

The thing I like about Zimbabwe is nothing.

Ontos: Weird, it wasn't always like that...


But, I guess there were other people in charge back then, huh?

White British people?

/Window seat, please.

Avogadro remember this number. It'll be on a test, I know it.