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[...] 2009 Ig Nobel prizes. The aim of the awards is to honour
achievements that "first make people laugh and then make them think".
[...]
Mathematics: Gideon Gono, governor of Zimbabwe's Reserve Bank, for
giving people a simple, everyday way to cope with a wide range of
numbers by having his bank print notes with denominations ranging from
one cent to one hundred trillion dollars.
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