: Large number on notes

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Why do some country use large number for their notes for example indonesian rupiah?

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Ever play the original [Super Mario Brothers](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/5/50/NES_Super_Mario_Bros.png)?

See the score in the upper left?

The score is now 4250.

Great.

When your score goes up, it only adds in increments of 10.

So you can have 4260, 4270, 4280 …. but you can’t ever have 4283.
It only goes up in increments of 10.

So … if that’s the case, then … isn’t that the same as saying your score is 426, and only goes up in increments of 1?

I mean, everything’s the same, right? It’s just that everything is multiplied by 10. But it’s really all the same when you think about it.

That’s the same way it is with currency. It really doesn’t matter how big the number is. You could take 1,000,000 Rp and call it “1 mega-rupiyah”, it would mean the same thing, right?

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