Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-110.146.149.161-20150813074512/@comment-25555436-20150908165623

Oh, the (000)? Technically speaking, we use "Bolivares Fuertes", or bsf. Enforced by Chavez like almost a decade ago, it's pretty much just grabbing a bill and taking away the 3 zeroes at the right. For example, a "2 mil bolivares" bill would be simply "2 bolivares". 2.000=2.

In practice, it was unnecesary, and right now it's ironic.

If I say XYZ(000), it's the same as if I said XYZ. If I say XYZ, then I said XYZ(000) and took away the 000. Confusing? Yeah, that's how it was back when it was integrated. Previously we simply used "10, 20" and so on. The bills had no 000 beside the actual number beside them.

So basically, Chavez introduced bills that have 3 "000s", as if making them sound stronger and look bigger....and also made it so that we must pretend those last 000s don't even exist in the first place when calculating the actual amount, making their existence be as good as Peach's here.