Australian Bank Notes are the Best in the World
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- Proof that Australian bank notes are the best in the world because they are sized according to a log scale. Also, they are water-proof.
I compare Australian, Canadian, UK and USA bank notes in an unbiased competition to see which is the best. My dual criteria are:
- the closest log-scale fit between the value and physical object for each note
- able to survive a being left in pocket and going through the wash
If you disagree: cast your vote now!
If you think I have missed an even better currency: I accept bribes in whatever the currency may be.
Also, check out my mate Steve Mould:
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"I'm afraid I can't accept that, I'll check with my manager" The best description of a £50 note ever.
£50 won't be enough to buy a loaf of bread soon enough. We'll be throwing fifties into sacks on a weighing scale to purchase dinner.
@@Milamberinx :/
Because the note is too high value so not all places accept them?
@@Ikxi imagine going to a 7-11 and paying with a hundred dollar bill, everyone would think you’re crazy and they probably wouldnt take it lol
@@csquaredfilms Or that it's fake money
Why crazy?
Even better, all those countries using polymer notes actually have to pay Australia for the licensed technology as it was invented there 30 years ago.
Expired patent then.
Copyright lasts 50 years in Australia
it was my understanding that Canadian notes are actually minted in Australia.
Sean do you have a source? Not that I don’t believe you but I’m really interested.
Tracy Beaker Memories why dont you search for it yourself , anyway answers are easy to find , read wikipedia link on polymer notes and also the notes are actually exported we dont have royalties on them . See RESERVE BANK OF AUSTRALIA link
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polymer_banknote
www.rba.gov.au/publications/annual-reports/rba/2006/note-printing.html
Aaustralia invented the polymer notes to prevent counterfeit as well as to minimise the need for replacing notes making them cost effective.
And Australia licences the technology
@@porklord5424...And Australia invented the polymer note.
they are also recyclable
and our $2 coin has mr squiggle on it atm
@@GlenJHenderson Mr Squiggle is a figure of horror and I will never forgive whoever decided to do that.
US bills make a perfect line on a log scale of length, area, AND volume, so they are actually the best currency mathematically. The only catch is that the line on the graph is horizontal.
R2 = 1
Just saw your comment after I posted mine (above) :)
Very clever
He said that about Canadian notes, but they are also waterproof.
Yup
It seems like the Aussie notes have the most obvious color variation as well, another point in their favor.
+jesusthroughmary Canadian banknotes go from light blue ($5) to purple ($10) to green ($20) to red ($50) to brown ($100), so I'd say they're probably tied as far as colour variation goes.
+jr lepage I don't know man. Australia is pink -> blue -> bright red -> bright yellow -> eye popping green
+Mag 7 Exactly. The colors are brighter and more obviously different.
+jesusthroughmary Vibrant?
+Jack Lam Indeed.
How about Euro notes? (they go from 5 to 500 so it's gonna cost a lot to show in the video ^^)
+LazyMasterGamer You can get specimens of them quite easily. :D
+StuziCamis yeah but it's better with real ones ^^
+LazyMasterGamer Yes, sadly I didn't have any Euro notes around. I might do a follow-up video if there are enough interesting currencies I've missed.
+standupmaths nice, and coins maybe. Like why the hell is the 5 Euro cent coin bigger than the 10 cent one ^^
Swiss francs go from 10 to 2000 and you can find the 1000 notes relatively easily.
My dad told me that australian notes can't be torn, I immediately proceeded to tear the $10 I'd just been gifted. (I was quite young at the time)
your dads a legend
New Zealand notes are polymer like AU... but they vary in both length and width (like UK). They also go up to $100. I would have to research the thickness though
"American currency, yes it's awesome, but, it hasn't got the queen on it smiling down to remind you who's boss"
*1776 will commence again*
MERICA
True
I am sad, we got the illuminati instead.
Zombie King George revived to join as player three
Technically, equal-sized currencies also fit in a log scale. They make a horizontal line
mntchannel and a perfect one too
mntchannel that’s just lazy
mntchannel but you can't predict the value thanks to the size
mntchannel yeah but when you scale it alongside it's increasing value...
R^2 value of a horizontal line ìs 0, for some reason.
The banknotes only having a horizontal difference makes them amazing for sorting while also maintaining their shape better after heavy use in conjunction with the material deferences. What a cool currency. I think a vetical change in shape would be annoying to handle so I'm glad it doesn't include that. It would be like those school papers that were smaller than all the others that would fall out between the two sheets you were holding or angle weirdly and get damaged haha.
In Switzerland we have similar banknotes and a thing that was explained to me is that it helps blind people differentiate them, they just need a small table with notches for the dimension and then they can feel the different lenghts. Not a huge deal, but i always thought it was a neat fact!
Edit: I just noticed someone making this same point in the comments below
0:07 Aussie notes are based confirmed
Yes, but with Canadian notes, you can shine a laser through the security window to project the value of the money onto a wall behind it. That's actually pretty cool.
+Lutranereis Sure, but *ours* have a windmill in the security window! Beat that, Canada!
They mentioned that at the end of the video.
Australia needs to implement this. There is no greater threat to our 'probably best banknotes' crown than our lack of laser based security features. If Canada ever figures out how to make banknotes of different sizes, we'll be ruined!
Yes, but Australia is one of the few countries that have a hologram for security reasons.
Joshua Williams I'm not seeing any holograms on my notes, and the Reserve Bank of Australia makes no mention of holograms as part of the security features.
The initial 1988 polymer notes did have holograms, but there were problems with them detaching. All notes since then have used other optically variable devices, but no holograms as far as I can see.
So many different notes with famous people on them. The Danish bills just have bridges on them
And really ugly colours.
Julian Daugaard don't forget the archeological finds and Queen Margrethe. they're logarithmical too
***** Not really
***** It's just to make them look more like the Euro. Because there was some talk about switching to the Euro. But we didn't, because nobody wanted that
I read bridges as fridges XD
0:01 "Australia has the best banknotes in the world. And it's all because these things are based." ~Matt Parker
search up "based matt parker wtf"
6:45 I actually think the Queen looks younger on the British note here. Sorry ;)
The dollars being the same size is actually a problem for blind people as there is litterally no way to tell the difference between the notes so they just have to trust that their change is correct.
+Huntracony There are other ways around it, though. Canadian bills are identically sized, but have raised symbols on the bills to indicate denomination (one set of six raised dots for $5, two sets for $10, three sets for $20, four sets for $50, and two sets with a much larger distance than the $10 for $100). You can actually see them pretty well at 8:23.
+Huntracony It is also a problem with counterfeiters that bleach $1 bills and print $100 on them and the paper is of original quality so the counterfeit looks real
+ipreferpi banknotes.rba.gov.au/resources/for-people-with-vision-impairment/
+ipreferpi
I'd imagine you would be able to remember the sizes of the bank notes, especially when you compare them to, say, the size of your hand or your wallet.
***** Blind people are a lot less helpless than they're made out to be.
American money looks like it came out of an inkjet lol
^
+Mandragara Better than money from a board game.
+Mandragara I actually put one in my cheap copier and it looks nearly identical
+Christopher Puzey Nope
+Jerome Lavoie Yurp.
All polymer notes in the world are based on the technology developed in Australia by the CSIRO. The same research organisation which developed wifi. In addition, Australian notes have the best security mechanisms in the world. Each bank note has its name "five dollars", "ten dollars" etc printed in extremely fine font on the note as part of the image design, eg. shading of the building etc. The easiest one to see is on the $5 note, on the top left of the $5 note it is printed and can just be read without use of a magnifying glass.
And the ten dollar note has the Man from Snowy River written in fine print.
IonianGarden Yes it does! The new notes have them in slightly less obvious areas too!
And the Serial number on the note glows under black light, sorry just remembering all these tricks from working as a cashier
Am I right in saying that SO DOES ENGLISH MONEY, I’ve actually looked into this before, and the security on the notes is just as good, and there are also tiny 5s and 10s etc in small print that is nearly impossible to see with the naked eye. also the notes in England aren’t Monopoly money
@ x Robust They will be Monopoly Money after Brexit! lol :- )
now UK has Polymer fivers and tenners, with the £20 note coming soon
Also one of the Scottish fivers have a fish picture which automatically makes it better than Australian notes
AUD has many easter eggs. Plus if it wasnt for AU, UK wouldntve made Polymer notes :)
and braille
The Queen of England is the head of state of Australia, just a colony with slightly less valuable money.
The fish outweighs everyother option
The Brazilian 100 ( reais ) also has a fish , but a much sexyer one 😉
9:23 I actually tried clearing the smudge off my screen
Kining Roseburg LOL
Kining Roseburg LOL
everyone is talking about the new five pound,
Aus also got a new $5
Yea but they already had a plastic one.
ryan xie Aussie..... You mean Aus or Australia, Aussie is when talking about someone.... I see your not an Aussie
ryan xie its not really new Scotland has had it for a while now
Joe x Feline wait.. since when were we talking about scotland?
ryan xie people are like "wow look at the new UK plastic fiver" and shit when Scotland's had it for quite a while
Well, that was some Parker logarithmic scaling, I guess.
*laughs in euro*
laughs in yen
laughs in BR$
Laughs in zloty
Laacht luxembourgish
Laughs in Canadian
US notes = Most aesthetically pleasing Length:Width ratio
UK notes = Best Design/Colour
Canadian notes = Most difficult to forge
Australian notes = Best overall
^
What's aesthetically pleasing about US notes?
+Víktor Bautista i Roca I just like how the US notes are much thinner in relation to their length, like super widescreen monitors. The dimensions on the other notes look too chunky to me (width-wise compared to length).
Yen are the most beautiful
+Dixavd are you american?
...log scale? ...Log Scale!? ...LOG SCALE!?!?!? ...THAT WAS ABRAHAM LINCOLN SIR! HOW ABOUT A LOG CABIN!!! NOT ONLY THAT, BUT HE trumps(we must whisper this word lest we summon the beast) THE QUEEN ANY DAY!!!
This comment made me laugh.
Good job.
The Pip :D ^^
"He trumps the queen" I don't know if you did that on purpose or not.
Lincoln was a massive racist. Queen beats Lincoln
yeah, but NOBODY likes the Dutch.
I feel like a lot more could be said about the Australian (and maybe the Canadian) bank notes, such as their usability for the visually impaired. Our notes have indented dots to indicate their value. Additionally, Canada and Australia have the clear window to make them even harder to make counterfeit copies of. I also know on Australian notes, we have holographic symbols in these windows, once again making it incredibly hard to copy.
On Canadian notes, we have 2 transparent parts: one has holograms, the other has a diffraction grating that projects an image of the denomination of the bill when a laser is shone through it
The US currency looks cheap and tacky, compared to the Australian.
It certainly does look so now, but I feel like the designs we had on the money until around '96 had some absolutely gorgeous engravings on the back.
@@banjo304 but they would all be the same size and colour
Andy Wright True, I’m speaking more for aesthetics than practicality.
Mau no they look well designed. Not like a drug induced hallucination.
@@gtothereal are you speaking from experience...?
As an aussie I was absolutely shocked to see how easily that british note tore.
It was made of paper.
Canadian bills smell like maple syrup and looks cool
Where tf am I? They don't smell like maple syrup lol.
Dakodah Desroches they do a little bit when they're new
you can also look through the leaf an see a dollar amount hologram
chason935 the new austrailian $5 notes have that
Bobsyouruncle Wilson they do make new ones you know.
Namibia has lions, giraffes and elefants on their notes. They're clearly superior.
South Africa has lions, elephants, rhinos, bulls, and cheetahs.
I may have one wrong, but it's the big 5. :)
@@Hiperruimteindustriee Southern Afrika in the house. #Mzansi4Life
I should probably point out that we in the UK now use polymer £5 and £10 notes, and are planning to introduce a polymer £20 note in February of this year (2020).A polymer £50 note has also been announced. It's expected to enter circulation at the end of 2021, at which point I shall expect a revised video naming pounds as the superior currency.
People may also be interested to know that we used to have a £1 note. I'd be interested to know if anyone has tried plotting this on Matt's graph, and what the results were (for reference, the dimensions were 135 X 67mm).
3:00 Australian money is ALMOST a perfect line. American money IS a perfect line. US dollar wins.
+DarKMaTTeR Not if you're blind.
Völundr Frey Do you even math?
I don't think these guys math
DarKMaTTeR I didn't comment on the fact that they make a perfect line. But that they win because of that. Sure if that's the criteria then they do win, but I just wanted to point out why it's a very bad thing for some.
+DarKMaTTeR Though that doesn't change the fact that r-square=0. Since r-square or R^2 also is the square of the correlation co-efficient r. And in this case r=0 so R^2=0 as well. So Australia still wins via R^2.
Time to look at the new fiver 😉
woah, there's a window on it... omg it's shiny too. too bad no vending machines take it because it's actually a different size
australia also got a new fiver lol
Sarah Cooper where in Essex are you from ?
Andrew Bone And Switzerland got a new 50fr note
This article was made years ago, now in 2021 the comparison should be done again.
I'm Australian and our notes have been redesigned. All denominations have retained their original colour and size, they all now contain tactile bumps so people with low vision can feel for the note's value making them far superior to any other notes in the world.
And yes, other countries are finally catching up.
I love how in the Vinn Diagram of curency at the end the stack of USD bills goes $1, $5, $10, $20, $1.
(Additionally, it is worth pointing out that we have the $2 and $50 USD bills as well, and those were left out of the analysis.)
i mean to be fair, the last 1$ was the 100$ emulated one (and yes, ik that this is a 7-months-old comment)
Yeah but who in their right mind would ever buy a lottery ticket with a 2 dollar bill? That’s a heirloom that you give to your grandchildren. It’s more of a novelty than a currency even though you can technically buy something with it.
To begin with, who in their right mind would by a lottery ticket at all?
And it's novelty does not effects it monetary value or legitimacy as legal tender. To be fair, the US has plenty of novelty coins and bills, but they are all legal tender. The $2 Bill is part of our set of bills (as are the $50 and $100), and should have been included in the analysis as such. Despite being used somewhat less frequently.
@@cranjusmcbasketball2052 $2 bills aren't actually all that rare.
According to the mint, 537.6M $2 bills have been printed in the last 10 years -- that makes them pretty rare relative to other bills, but hardly rare enough to horde them as collectibles. IMO that is the problem, since people don't use them, the mint doesn't print them.
Pre-pandemic, I'd always ask at my bank... if they had any I'd take them and I'd get enough that I could keep any that didn't have folds/creases and sequential ones and spend the rest.
To put that 537.6M bills (over 10 years) in perspective- compared to other US bills over the same period,
$1 - 41x as common
$100 - 33x as common
$20 - 28x as common
$5 - 13x as common
$10 - 8.7x as common
30%
+Jack Drewitt www.bankofengland.co.uk/banknotes/Documents/kyb_lo_res.pdf
What about NZ notes? They fit all the criteria: *Has a Queen, *Differing widths, *Differing lengths, *Polymer based, *Shrink in the oven. I can send some to you (shrunk or unshrunk)
It just makes sense. It’s not easy to rip, notes get bigger as the denomination gets bigger and you don’t have to look at the numbers cus they’re colour coded, as opposed to America where the notes are literally paper and are all an off 1700s yellow
I love how you desperately chase after the ripped fiver at 7:26
It's all about the 1930 German Mark. It does something none of the other bills can: be a wallpaper or kindling
Too Old What about Zimbabwe?
New Zealand currency has a log scale, is made from polymer AND was recently updated. (We also don't have poisonous spiders)
ChickenBird.
Aw, that's no good mate, we'll send some over if ya like! How about a few taipans and tiger snakes as well?
Although you do have earthquakes and volcanos
@@lejatzman96 So does Australia. (Technically speaking, although there are no active volcanoes on mainland Australia, there are on islands that belong to Australia)
@@Chris_Cross yeah thats what i meant, they are much less often and not as severe (btw, i am Australian and was having a dig at the kiwis)
What about Euro notes??
garbadge
The R²-measure for length vs. log(value) is 0.9986.
Monopoly money you mean?
Joe Soap not water proof
apparently they have been discarded for not having the Queen on them...
American Dollars burn easier too for Rich people.
Yeah how else are you supposed to light cigars?
사나이사나이 actually a lot of wealthy people in America aren’t wealthy because they save well. They’re wealthy because their income is much greater than they can spend and/or they have generational wealth. A poor person isn’t going because wealthy by saving the very little money they can after living expenses. There are a lot of wealthy people that save a lot despite spending much more than the average American middle class, four person family.
Australia invented the plastic banknote, of course. Canada pays us royalties to use it!
+Scot Mcphee Do they? I'd like to know if you have a source to back up that claim. Genuinely curious.
+jr lepage Wikipedia - "Modern polymer banknotes were first developed by the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA), Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) and The University of Melbourne. They were first issued as currency in Australia in 1988 (coinciding with that country's bicentennial year). In 1996 Australia switched completely to polymer banknotes. Countries that have since switched completely to polymer banknotes include Brunei, New Zealand, Singapore, Papua New Guinea, Romania, Vietnam, Fiji, Mauritius, and Canada."
They definitely would have to licence the technology. The RBA sells the technology.
lol. Canada makes its own notes. only NZ and Mexico use the same notes. and now the NZ is switching to a Canadian design.
you understand what the term "licence the technology" means, right
The nice thing about licensing the technology is you can print the fee payment.
Kiwi banknotes differ in both hight and length, are polymer based, and have the queen. I think it's clear that much like with rugby, New Zealand wins.
+Soliloquy Not if you go and ruin your flag.
+Soliloquy Except they aren't made in New Zealand. (I thought they'd be made in Australia, but apparently they're made in Canada and the UK.)
+Soliloquy Unfortunately, according to my calculations the r2 fit for the area of NZ bank notes is only 0.997995... so much like with cricket, Australia wins.
+TheOrangeSloth but nobody likes cricket!!
also +Soliloquy Your videos are amazing.
+josiah O'Neill Thanks, and seriously who would think a 5 day sports game is a good idea?
"[Australian bank notes] are based(...)" - Matt Parker, 2016
“The £50 called the ‘I’m afraid I can’t accept that” 😂
7:24 And now legally you've just committed treason and posted evidence on CZcams. XD
+Andy Jones Its not treason if you don't belong to that country. :P
Actually any persons found to have defiled anything with the queens face on, such as stamps, coins and banknotes, under The British Currency and Bank Notes Act 1928 are to be punished by either death or life imprisonment and a fine in an amount to be set by court.
I will admit this is one of those weird British laws that no-one still pays any attention to, but it is there in writing and has not yet been officially denounced as a law. =)
+Andy Jones how ridiculous. I'm sure that isn't often enforced.
+TheCarbonMirror Considering those punishments were repealed by various acts between 1975 and 1984, you may be right.
TheCarbonMirror Put it this way, if it was still enforced Britain wouldn't have so many people living in it. XD
But, you can't light an Australian $100 bill on fire to light a cigar with it.
+Dojix
But they're excellent for snorting coke. Since they're plastic they don't get soggy.
+Robin Harrison And you're not leaving as much on the note as you do with paper notes :P
+Dean s
And any of your drink left on there you can easily lick off. Love a bit of hard core caffeine.
You could just light the cigar directly...
+Timo Kroeze you monster!
What is the practical purpose for having different note sizes, if any? Is it to help people differentiate between them by feel? If so, Canadian notes (which are all the same size) accomplish this with raised dots similar to braille. $5 has a single 6 dot grouping, $10 has two groupings side by side, $20 has three groupings side by size, $50 has four groupings side by side, and the $100 has two widely spaced groupings.
3:51 Yes, that is exactly what they're called. The charity shop I (voluntarily) work for will not accept them, but the place where I (get paid to) work will.
And we've got Mt. Everest on our banknotes (also to remind you who's boss!?). We don't have waterproof polymer though.
+Bibek Gautam Mt Everest is definitely the boss.
+standupmaths we also have 300 bills im aussie btw
+Defective Turret No we don't...
David Alexander my dad showed me one ;3 they exist but they are really rare
+Defective Turret Nope. Either your dad showed you a fake/other/nation, or you didn't see it correctly. For reference, the RBA has a list of legal currency in Australia, including banknotes: banknotes.rba.gov.au/australias-banknotes/banknotes-in-circulation/
Different sized notes would drive me nuts.
+The Blue Farmer I assume you're not blind then? ;)
Benjamin Philipp So if I hand a blind person a 10 dollar australian bill they can tell it's 10 dollars bases solely on length?
The Blue Farmer
Well, with Ozzie money it's more than that - but sure, it helps: You can carry references to check against. That eliminates a whole lot of confusion or trickery right from the start. I'd call that a plus and I wouldn't want to have to deal with anything less
Since its plastic they should just embos some braille on it.
+The Blue Farmer The $10, $20, $50 and $100 Australian bank notes do have some embossing, located in the window area. The $10 has a wave pattern whilst the larger notes have their value embossed. The $5 does not have any embossing.
One of the design requirements of the Australian banknotes was to ensure the vast majority of the population could use them. Features like embossing, size differences, and even the use of vibrant colours helps people with varying levels of vision difficulties.
As someone who in the past spent most of their day counting money i can definatly perceive the difference in thickness. It's actually one of the main ways I could tell a counterfeit note. After thousands of hours handling Australian notes you will feel a microscopic change in the thickness of the note.
So, euros dont exixst apparently... They are log scaled, waterproof and go up to 500, also they arrange in different colors.
aren't euros just better in this case? 5,10,20,50,100,200,500?
No euroscum.
at least it's still better than dollar bills, I mean bills for 1 dollar? the hell? your entire wallet is just green, you have no good way to quickly tell what bill is which, just terrible
that's one of the good things about US currency. You can have a $100 bill on the top, a $100 bill on the bottom, and a bunch of $1 bills in the middle, and you look rich.
its a waste of space in your wallet
ya it was a joke lol
But what about euros? They vary in size.
that's what i thought. They also vary in colour and are hard to counterfeit because they have the hologram picture you can only see against light.
+Migustinder Pound notes have a hologram and tbh I wouldn't be surprised if Australian dollars did as well
hell, most US bills have one too
aussie ones do m8
Euros are even waterproof
Great video! I enjoyed listening to 10 minutes of discussion of British pounds vs Australian dollars! ❤
Of all the metrics I thought you were gonna value this on, volume was not expected, but very much gave me a chuckle
What about Euro!? They have 200 and 500 Euro Bill
not waterproofr though
OP PAI The euro is dead. worth diddly squat compared to AUS, US and UK
General Josh Gaming The euro is worth more than the US dollar!
007xgui yeah your right
General Josh Gaming lol You wont get much over 60+ Euro cents for a AUD ! So how "dead" is our Aussie dollar?
I'm American and I never knew that other countries have different sizes of bills. I'm uncomfortable.
Our notes are also much more quickly distinguishable because they're different colours.
If you can read numbers then EVERY currency in the world is pretty easy to distinguish.
Some people are blind. That's why log scales help.
Yeah, but colors are way faster and easier.
Derek Decker
For one note, it is easy but for a stack of notes or a lot of stacks then it is not easy anymore. People could try to disguise the money by that
Cannot believe how good this video is. Well done.
Not to mention different colours making them easy to tell apart
Australia also has the most colourful banknotes in the world, not drab & boring like the British pound or US dollar. Mind you the Dutch guilders used to be the most colourful before they changed to the Euro. & that people, is my most pointless comment of the day! :- )
Well so far anyway!
mickeydiver17 The new ones look a bit over the top though. If you're not Australian yourself, there's a new lot coming in, of which, we only have the new $5 note so far.
@Brek Martin I agree & they are causing havoc at Coles, Woolies & even the TAB because the clear strip can't be "read" by machines lol. I have a mint condition original $5 note 1st issue & it's worth much more than 5 bucks!
Oh & I'm talking about the paper Caroline Chisholm "Commonwealth Of Australia" note! Yeah, boring really unless you're into collecting banknotes like this poor sad sack! lol :- (
That’s cool. I don’t collect it generally, but I do have a full mint collection of former Yugoslavia notes just because they have Nikola Tesla portraits and associated imagery. They range from 100 to tens of Billions, and do vary in size, so I thought watching this video they would have made an interesting comparison :D
US currency is boring, doesn't even vary in colour
It's also the product of bourgeois scum right?
same color and size,but why better people on the dollars,then some old hag on every single bill.can't believe there's still marnaky
At least there is no overseas Queen on them.
UK notes and coins are great, they all go 1,2,5 in a series. £1, £2, £5, £10, £20 etc... This means it is very easy to get any integer number of pounds without needing loads of 1s.
It's clean and simple
Best money was 10 DM from Germany before Euro with Gauß on it.
You'll forgive me for pointing out that Canadian notes by length, width, area AND volume ARE PERFECTLY LINEAR on a log scale with an R value of 1.000. Sure, the slope of the line is zero, but it's still a line.
You make great videos, but your math needs some work.
Yep, it's easier to counterfeit a us dollar bill and make a $1 into a $20 bill. There's a bleaching method which you use. By making them different sizes it's handy for blind people along with an intaglio feature. But also prevents counterfeits. The Swiss Franc has the most security features on a banknote, but it's made from cotton/linen combination. They have some insane features like a micro-perforation of the denominated values of the note.
the notes are ugly though
Incorrect, the R value is 0 because there is no slope. A very simple and common mistake I've seen around the place. :P (And yes, it changes from 0 to 1.000 when even the most marginal of slopes are observed.)
The R value shouldbe 0. When two variables show no correlation, they show a 0 r-value through the formula.
its zero bro, you need to rework your math, not him...
I like Australia Notes but does log scale really matter
Helps with counterfeiting.
A bit late to the party, but regrettably you've missed the best currency. Costa Rica has perfectly logarithmic notes from 1k to 50k, a much larger range than UK or Australia, they are fairly waterproof, and most importantly, each denomination features a beautiful scene from the rainforest or ocean.
So it costs more to make a note than its value is?
This is awkward, who's going to tell him UK notes are made from polymers now?
New Zealand bank notes are also colourful, different sizes and made of plastic, although I'm not sure which country brought in the notes like that first out of NZ and Aussie. New Zealand notes are even prettier and more patriotic though :3
And we have the same note values
Not sure about size though... They definitely increase in size, but I'm not sure exactly how.
margeobur Australia invented and introduced polymer first, they were the first in the world (invented by CSIRO).
Not quite first, there were a couple of polymer "paper" notes done by various printers before 1988.
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What about euros?
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Staremperor euros are cool, but the 200 and 500 seem pointless
AussieGirl is savage.
Minimo my mum used some €500 notes to buy a new car (hint: cash is king here)
Excellent analysis.
The Venn-diagram missed a very important metric: The presence of the Queen to show who is boss
No the pound is the best currency. It's the most stable and has the most value, oh wait.........
Brexit made me sad.
BREXIT !!!!!!!!
Bitcoin
out of those three it is still the most valuable...
Where are the EURO notes? They are washable and beachproof ;)
Romanian money is also waterproof and i think its on a logarithmic scale too!
Asta vroiam sa comentez
Yeah but Romania has no money
Berend Otto Apply cold water to burnt area.
Which currencies are friendly to visually impaired people? I'm very certain Canadian bank notes are printed with braille values. Wouldn't the braille printing actually be more useful than different sized notes? Was that the reason for varying physical sizes of notes?
I find it funny how we had a typo on the "new" 50$ note not long ago
What about New Zealand Notes?
NZ dont make their notes, in fact, they are outsourced to Canada and Australia.
Zwan So?
theyre the same size as the aussie notes, just theyre printed in the wrong colours
Not true, New Zealand notes change in both height and width like the UK notes, while Australian notes only change in length
***** Well they arent NZ notes are they?
this is why i love being an Aussie and still living in Australia
So the only thing you love, and your single reason for living in Australia, is that the money almost has a correlation of 1 when put on a log graph?(And it's waterproof and tear resistant)
I agree. I didn't even know that Australian and UK notes are different sizes and colors: i am american :D
+atomatopia1 we dont get mass shootings ty
but then everything costs so much you dont have money left to look at
But then we do have a minimum wage of $21 so yeah....
Would love to see a new version of the video with some of the new Australian notes, don't know if anything has changed other then the bigger transparent part
Each note now has little raised bumps on it to help the blind to distinguish the value. Some people have incorrectly described the bumps as braille, but they aren't, according to the people who rely upon it, because the bumps are simply linear in meaning. The 5 has a single bump, the 10 has two bumps, the twenty has three, the fifty has four and the 100 has five. If in braille, the words for 5, 10, twenty etc would be spelt out in braille.
You should review Swiss bank notes, the new ones are also scaled and waterproof (they are made out of polymer)
So is the Australian one
How does a blind person in USA pay 42$ in a shop without being able to tell the difference between the notes ?
Nicolaj H he moves to Australia lol
Nicolaj H they run around with only 1$ notes
They fold their bank notes. Still, having different sizes would be nice to find out which is which even if they aren't folded.
Stultum Stulto how do they figure out the notes before folding them then?
use a card
I think the Australian mint knew you were making this video...
I would like to see an update with the new UK polymer notes
You can dunk the £5 in water and it won't tear. You are using the old £5 note in this video
Having the queen I'd say is a detriment. But yeah, Australian and British notes are way better than US and Canadian notes if only because it allows blind people to not have to rely on friends and cashiers to tell them what value of bill they're holding. But... four currencies is hardly representative of all the bank notes in the world. I'm going to need to see a lot more data to be convinced of Australian money's worldwide superiority.
Alexander L. Braille?
They have braille now.
7:55 Awww hell yes, Canada!! We swoop in for the win!! ... I mean not, cuz our bills are all the same size LOL
But still, we beat USA 😁
Oh Steve Mould had our Canadian money?? Heck yes checking that out next 😁
Ah Ah. Funny. Very funny 😑
I think since this video was made, England has updated its notes to polymer. ( BTY- polymer notes is an Aussie invention developed by CSIRO) (Google it). Also if you hold the edge of a polymer note on a spinning vinyl record it will make noise, and the polymer notes can be textured- also helpful for blind persons. Polymers also don't jam in vending machine as bad a paper ones.
what the hell was that at 3:15? is matt just a hologram?
+Cauê Baasch de Souza Either I'm a hologram or I need a new camera. It's hard to say for sure.
+standupmaths Good thing the green screen didn't glitch out. That might have torn the spacetime continuum.
the new 5 pound is just like Australia n money
*****
thanks
KyleCow Australia got new banknotes too so they're not the same anymore
The new 5 dollar Australian note looks like Canadian money
but with braille
The new Australian notes that have just been released (only $5 so far) have Braille on them.
The new Aussie notes (other than looking even more awesome) also now have indents in the corner ranging from one indent ($5 note) to five indents ($100 note) to assist vision impaired people quickly identify what note they have.
Australia invented polymer and even print NZ, Canadas and fijis currencys
Greg Dundee and Canada’s
GeminiStargazer he said that
Actually they print all polymer notes globally and export then from the RESERVE BANK OF AUSTRALIA which we here in Australia get paid for doing
Sorry to burst your bubble. But, Canadian and US bills are on a log scale, with an r^2 value of 1, because it is a horizontal line.
And yes, I know you skipped over it, because it is the trivial solution; but it is a solution, and should be covered.
There IS a UK £100 note, several types in fact in circulation in Scotland and Northern Ireland. There is still also a £1 note in Scotland.
Did anyone point out the laser activated hologram in the Canadian notes? Log to the base cool!
Okay but what about European notes(the Euro), they are also not waterproof but the sizes (and colors) are different?
ahem. Make your plot of US bank note values to lengths, areas, and volumes. Your "r" values equal 1.
Flatlining plot, lol.
it would actually equal 0