In 1923, the Associated Press reported on a new malady sweeping through the Weimar Republic, which was then experiencing extreme hyperinflation, with an estimated 93 quintillion marks in circulation. Berliners were said to be “prostrated by . . . a desire to write endless rows of ciphers and engage in computations more involved than the most difficult problems in logarithms.” Called the “zero stroke,” “cipher stroke,” and “cipheritis,” the malady...
In 1923, the Associated Press reported on a new malady sweeping through the Weimar Republic, which was then experiencing extreme hyperinflation, with an estimated 93 quintillion marks in circulation. Berliners were said to be “prostrated by . . . a desire to write endless rows of ciphers and engage in...
In 1923, the Associated Press reported on a new malady sweeping through the Weimar Republic, which was then experiencing extreme hyperinflation, with an estimated 93 quintillion marks in circulation. Berliners were said to be “prostrated by . . . a...
