One of the answers in a reading exercise in my class today was:
- 100,000,000,000,000,000,000
... which was the value of the highest denomination note ever issued. It was a 100,000,000,000,000,000,000 Pengo note, issued by Hungary in 1946. The students in my class wanted to know how they could say that last sentence in words in English. So I told them that I didn't know. They pointed out to me that if they wanted to read this bit of writing to someone they'd want to be able to use the words. Fair point.
Can anyone help?
[In case you're interested, a 100,000,000,000,000,000,000 Pengo note was worth about $0.20!]
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