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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@snoopy13946 5 лет назад

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.

@croc1608 4 года назад

Expired patent then.

@ryanconway9373 4 года назад

@wildseaeagle 4 года назад

it was my understanding that Canadian notes are actually minted in Australia.

@TracyBeakerMemories 4 года назад

Sean do you have a source? Not that I don’t believe you but I’m really interested.

@iamasmurf1122 4 года назад

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

@ronster1703 7 лет назад

"I'm afraid I can't accept that, I'll check with my manager" The best description of a £50 note ever.

@Milamberinx 4 года назад

£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.

@zedg7473 4 года назад

@@Milamberinx :/

@Ikxi 3 года назад

Because the note is too high value so not all places accept them?

@csquaredfilms 2 года назад

@@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

@Ikxi 2 года назад

@@csquaredfilms Or that it's fake money Why crazy?

@ozbrizzie8869 6 лет назад

Aaustralia invented the polymer notes to prevent counterfeit as well as to minimise the need for replacing notes making them cost effective.

@JohnCran 5 лет назад

And Australia licences the technology

@laravincent5659 5 лет назад

@@porklord5424...And Australia invented the polymer note.

@mr.person7339 5 лет назад

they are also recyclable

@GlenJHenderson 5 лет назад

and our $2 coin has mr squiggle on it atm

@dermotbresnehan6836 5 лет назад

@@GlenJHenderson Mr Squiggle is a figure of horror and I will never forgive whoever decided to do that.

@ckmym 4 года назад

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.

@matthewkaseman7457 4 года назад

R2 = 1

@colinratcliffe3074 3 года назад

Just saw your comment after I posted mine (above) :)

@thaumaTurtles 2 года назад

Very clever

@grapetoad6595 8 месяцев назад

He said that about Canadian notes, but they are also waterproof.

@longiusaescius2537 8 месяцев назад

Yup

@jesusthroughmary 8 лет назад

It seems like the Aussie notes have the most obvious color variation as well, another point in their favor.

@jrlepage2a03 8 лет назад

+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.

@Mag314159 8 лет назад

+jr lepage I don't know man. Australia is pink -> blue -> bright red -> bright yellow -> eye popping green

@jesusthroughmary 8 лет назад

+Mag 7 Exactly. The colors are brighter and more obviously different.

@paradoxica424 8 лет назад

+jesusthroughmary Vibrant?

@jesusthroughmary 8 лет назад

+Jack Lam Indeed.

@LazyMasterGamer 8 лет назад

How about Euro notes? (they go from 5 to 500 so it's gonna cost a lot to show in the video ^^)

@StuziCamis 8 лет назад

+LazyMasterGamer You can get specimens of them quite easily. :D

@LazyMasterGamer 8 лет назад

+StuziCamis yeah but it's better with real ones ^^

@standupmaths 8 лет назад

+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.

@LazyMasterGamer 8 лет назад

+standupmaths nice, and coins maybe. Like why the hell is the 5 Euro cent coin bigger than the 10 cent one ^^

@stefanozurich 8 лет назад

Swiss francs go from 10 to 2000 and you can find the 1000 notes relatively easily.

@jamietus1012 4 года назад

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)

@csquaredfilms 2 года назад

your dads a legend

@socialistsolidarity 6 лет назад

The US currency looks cheap and tacky, compared to the Australian.

@banjo304 5 лет назад

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.

@andywright8803 5 лет назад

@@banjo304 but they would all be the same size and colour

@banjo304 5 лет назад

Andy Wright True, I’m speaking more for aesthetics than practicality.

@gtothereal 5 лет назад

Mau no they look well designed. Not like a drug induced hallucination.

@andywright8803 5 лет назад

@@gtothereal are you speaking from experience...?

@green6676 7 лет назад

"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*

@blitz8260 5 лет назад

MERICA

@muhammadshemede5874 4 года назад

True

@umariqbal7557 4 года назад

I am sad, we got the illuminati instead.

@erg0centric 3 года назад

Zombie King George revived to join as player three

@mntalateyya 7 лет назад

Technically, equal-sized currencies also fit in a log scale. They make a horizontal line

@mastmaula7325 6 лет назад

mntchannel and a perfect one too

@catherinerachaelangsy4423 6 лет назад

mntchannel that’s just lazy

@amiwatchesyt 6 лет назад

mntchannel but you can't predict the value thanks to the size

@hopehepperlin2519 6 лет назад

mntchannel yeah but when you scale it alongside it's increasing value...

@trangium 6 лет назад

R^2 value of a horizontal line ìs 0, for some reason.

@rowanbrown5541 2 года назад

0:07 Aussie notes are based confirmed

@andrewlambert9946 3 года назад

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

@mr_Mmph 7 лет назад

So many different notes with famous people on them. The Danish bills just have bridges on them

@skriver124 7 лет назад

And really ugly colours.

@visiblur 7 лет назад

Julian Daugaard don't forget the archeological finds and Queen Margrethe. they're logarithmical too

@mr_Mmph 7 лет назад

***** Not really

@mr_Mmph 7 лет назад

***** 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

@lisbonmapping8425 7 лет назад

I read bridges as fridges XD

@Huntracony 8 лет назад

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.

@thewuurm 8 лет назад

+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.

@yarone5960 8 лет назад

+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

@smallcube7611 8 лет назад

+ipreferpi banknotes.rba.gov.au/resources/for-people-with-vision-impairment/

@Nixitur 8 лет назад

+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.

@Huntracony 8 лет назад

***** Blind people are a lot less helpless than they're made out to be.

@JessYoutubeAccount 3 года назад

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.

@mrsimonebucher 11 месяцев назад

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

@goldroyal9321 6 лет назад

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.

@IonianGarden 6 лет назад

And the ten dollar note has the Man from Snowy River written in fine print.

@goldroyal9321 6 лет назад

IonianGarden Yes it does! The new notes have them in slightly less obvious areas too!

@stagger87 6 лет назад

And the Serial number on the note glows under black light, sorry just remembering all these tricks from working as a cashier

@kyleclarke4845 5 лет назад

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

@mickeydiver17 5 лет назад

@ x Robust They will be Monopoly Money after Brexit! lol :- )

@Lutranereis 8 лет назад

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.

@yinge101 8 лет назад

+Lutranereis Sure, but *ours* have a windmill in the security window! Beat that, Canada!

@cleetose 8 лет назад

They mentioned that at the end of the video.

@LordRunty 8 лет назад

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!

@joshuawilliams994 8 лет назад

Yes, but Australia is one of the few countries that have a hologram for security reasons.

@LordRunty 8 лет назад

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.

@Mandragara 8 лет назад

American money looks like it came out of an inkjet lol

@origamikatakana 8 лет назад

@ChristopherPuzey 8 лет назад

+Mandragara Better than money from a board game.

@doemaeries 8 лет назад

+Mandragara I actually put one in my cheap copier and it looks nearly identical

@Jerome... 8 лет назад

+Christopher Puzey Nope

@ChristopherPuzey 8 лет назад

+Jerome Lavoie Yurp.

@Niyudi 6 лет назад

Well, that was some Parker logarithmic scaling, I guess.

@Leon024 6 лет назад

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

@someone4159 6 лет назад

AUD has many easter eggs. Plus if it wasnt for AU, UK wouldntve made Polymer notes :)

@arisalive8810 6 лет назад

and braille

@elwynr1108 5 лет назад

The Queen of England is the head of state of Australia, just a colony with slightly less valuable money.

@danieldelport1537 5 лет назад

The fish outweighs everyother option

@pedrorosa1662 5 лет назад

The Brazilian 100 ( reais ) also has a fish , but a much sexyer one 😉

@ryanxie7554 7 лет назад

everyone is talking about the new five pound, Aus also got a new $5

@Heligoland360 7 лет назад

Yea but they already had a plastic one.

@lachlanm659 7 лет назад

ryan xie Aussie..... You mean Aus or Australia, Aussie is when talking about someone.... I see your not an Aussie

@JoexFelinexTonysBlackTeeth 7 лет назад

ryan xie its not really new Scotland has had it for a while now

@ryanxie7554 7 лет назад

Joe x Feline wait.. since when were we talking about scotland?

@JoexFelinexTonysBlackTeeth 7 лет назад

ryan xie people are like "wow look at the new UK plastic fiver" and shit when Scotland's had it for quite a while

@kiningroseburg9288 7 лет назад

9:23 I actually tried clearing the smudge off my screen

@triggeredegg9675 7 лет назад

Kining Roseburg LOL

@triggeredegg9675 7 лет назад

Kining Roseburg LOL

@Obviary 2 года назад

0:01 "Australia has the best banknotes in the world. And it's all because these things are based." ~Matt Parker

@ratewcropolix 2 года назад

search up "based matt parker wtf"

@Obviary Месяц назад

@@ratewcropolix Thank you for the recommendation

@DeathBringer769 5 лет назад

6:45 I actually think the Queen looks younger on the British note here. Sorry ;)

@RandomSelectGaming 8 лет назад

...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!!!

@thepip3599 8 лет назад

This comment made me laugh. Good job.

@RandomSelectGaming 8 лет назад

The Pip :D ^^

@if3660 8 лет назад

"He trumps the queen" I don't know if you did that on purpose or not.

@Mufflemonsta009 8 лет назад

Lincoln was a massive racist. Queen beats Lincoln

@RandomSelectGaming 8 лет назад

yeah, but NOBODY likes the Dutch.

@Dixavd 8 лет назад

US notes = Most aesthetically pleasing Length:Width ratio UK notes = Best Design/Colour Canadian notes = Most difficult to forge Australian notes = Best overall

@origamikatakana 8 лет назад

8 лет назад

What's aesthetically pleasing about US notes?

@Dixavd 8 лет назад

+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).

@funkyweezy8071 8 лет назад

Yen are the most beautiful

@KevintheBooth 8 лет назад

+Dixavd are you american?

@Mrenisenko 6 лет назад

*laughs in euro*

@tsurigd2262 5 лет назад

laughs in yen

@memememegaming 5 лет назад

laughs in BR$

@tsurigd2262 5 лет назад

Laughs in zloty

@tsurigd2262 5 лет назад

Laacht luxembourgish

@sariflavours7381 5 лет назад

Laughs in Canadian

@agushernandezquiroga9064 2 года назад

"[Australian bank notes] are based(...)" - Matt Parker, 2016

@JakeFace0 8 лет назад

As an aussie I was absolutely shocked to see how easily that british note tore.

@melissabarrett9750 Год назад

It was made of paper.

@darkmater4tm 8 лет назад

3:00 Australian money is ALMOST a perfect line. American money IS a perfect line. US dollar wins.

@volundrfrey896 8 лет назад

+DarKMaTTeR Not if you're blind.

@darkmater4tm 8 лет назад

Völundr Frey Do you even math?

@mookiecookie44 8 лет назад

I don't think these guys math

@volundrfrey896 8 лет назад

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.

@AgentDRJ 8 лет назад

+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.

@greaterFool3765 4 года назад

Namibia has lions, giraffes and elefants on their notes. They're clearly superior.

@Hiperruimteindustriee 2 года назад

South Africa has lions, elephants, rhinos, bulls, and cheetahs. I may have one wrong, but it's the big 5. :)

@thembinkosikissama8764 2 года назад

@@Hiperruimteindustriee Southern Afrika in the house. #Mzansi4Life

@joshuamitchell5530 6 лет назад

“The £50 called the ‘I’m afraid I can’t accept that” 😂

@AndrewBone 7 лет назад

Time to look at the new fiver 😉

@KC-zs3vv 7 лет назад

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

@Hankyspanky1996 7 лет назад

australia also got a new fiver lol

@HarrisonJamess 7 лет назад

Sarah Cooper where in Essex are you from ?

@janickmaharajah7226 7 лет назад

Andrew Bone And Switzerland got a new 50fr note

@doctorscoot 8 лет назад

Australia invented the plastic banknote, of course. Canada pays us royalties to use it!

@jrlepage2a03 8 лет назад

+Scot Mcphee Do they? I'd like to know if you have a source to back up that claim. Genuinely curious.

@doctorscoot 8 лет назад

+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.

@GoobNoob 8 лет назад

lol. Canada makes its own notes. only NZ and Mexico use the same notes. and now the NZ is switching to a Canadian design.

@doctorscoot 8 лет назад

you understand what the term "licence the technology" means, right

@lmiddleman 8 лет назад

The nice thing about licensing the technology is you can print the fee payment.

@cassiee8632 2 года назад

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.

@Howtheheckarehandleswit 8 месяцев назад

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

@user46346bdtgry 6 лет назад

What about Euro notes??

@spaceman7019 6 лет назад

garbadge

@juttagut3695 5 лет назад

The R²-measure for length vs. log(value) is 0.9986.

@mickeydiver17 5 лет назад

Monopoly money you mean?

@MAP2023 5 лет назад

Joe Soap not water proof

@ronmiel100 5 лет назад

apparently they have been discarded for not having the Queen on them...

@dojix96 8 лет назад

But, you can't light an Australian $100 bill on fire to light a cigar with it.

@earthwizz 8 лет назад

+Dojix But they're excellent for snorting coke. Since they're plastic they don't get soggy.

@thertsman8233 8 лет назад

+Robin Harrison And you're not leaving as much on the note as you do with paper notes :P

@earthwizz 8 лет назад

+Dean s And any of your drink left on there you can easily lick off. Love a bit of hard core caffeine.

@ktimo100 8 лет назад

You could just light the cigar directly...

@Azivegu 8 лет назад

+Timo Kroeze you monster!

@wheretfami582 7 лет назад

Canadian bills smell like maple syrup and looks cool

@Dak17SJ 7 лет назад

Where tf am I? They don't smell like maple syrup lol.

@0422Juls 7 лет назад

Dakodah Desroches they do a little bit when they're new

@chason935 7 лет назад

you can also look through the leaf an see a dollar amount hologram

@dentalstone 7 лет назад

chason935 the new austrailian $5 notes have that

@0422Juls 7 лет назад

Bobsyouruncle Wilson they do make new ones you know.

@112048112048 3 года назад

I love how you desperately chase after the ripped fiver at 7:26

@johnboyd6943 3 года назад

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.

@thebluefarmer6406 8 лет назад

Different sized notes would drive me nuts.

@black_platypus 8 лет назад

+The Blue Farmer I assume you're not blind then? ;)

@thebluefarmer6406 8 лет назад

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?

@black_platypus 8 лет назад

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

@thebluefarmer6406 8 лет назад

Since its plastic they should just embos some braille on it.

@waynej747 8 лет назад

+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.

@mwalford1 8 лет назад

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)

@Ineedgames 5 лет назад

American Dollars burn easier too for Rich people.

@Agos226 4 года назад

Yeah how else are you supposed to light cigars?

@JacquelineUnderwood 4 года назад

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.

@mga5534 2 года назад

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

@bibekgautam512 8 лет назад

And we've got Mt. Everest on our banknotes (also to remind you who's boss!?). We don't have waterproof polymer though.

@standupmaths 8 лет назад

+Bibek Gautam Mt Everest is definitely the boss.

@someguyontheinternet2521 8 лет назад

+standupmaths we also have 300 bills im aussie btw

@davidalexander4505 8 лет назад

+Defective Turret No we don't...

@someguyontheinternet2521 8 лет назад

David Alexander my dad showed me one ;3 they exist but they are really rare

@michealhill1495 8 лет назад

+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/

@tooold8549 7 лет назад

It's all about the 1930 German Mark. It does something none of the other bills can: be a wallpaper or kindling

@iamthinking2252_ 7 лет назад

Too Old What about Zimbabwe?

@ronaldweasley4648 6 лет назад

This is awkward, who's going to tell him UK notes are made from polymers now?

@JSDGDesign 4 года назад

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.)

@QPUNeptune 3 года назад

i mean to be fair, the last 1$ was the 100$ emulated one (and yes, ik that this is a 7-months-old comment)

@cranjusmcbasketball2052 3 года назад

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.

@JSDGDesign 3 года назад

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.

@rayden54 3 года назад

@@cranjusmcbasketball2052 $2 bills aren't actually all that rare.

@ericrosen6626 3 года назад

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

@captainobscurity491 7 лет назад

I'm American and I never knew that other countries have different sizes of bills. I'm uncomfortable.

@joools1953 7 лет назад

Our notes are also much more quickly distinguishable because they're different colours.

@TheDiscrazy 7 лет назад

If you can read numbers then EVERY currency in the world is pretty easy to distinguish.

@Billy55563 7 лет назад

Some people are blind. That's why log scales help.

@TheFrontyer 7 лет назад

Yeah, but colors are way faster and easier.

@AnTran-ie7vq 7 лет назад

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

@_IHateHandles_ 8 лет назад

7:24 And now legally you've just committed treason and posted evidence on RU-vid. XD

@CommanderQ 8 лет назад

+Andy Jones Its not treason if you don't belong to that country. :P

@_IHateHandles_ 8 лет назад

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. =)

@TheCarbonMirror 8 лет назад

+Andy Jones how ridiculous. I'm sure that isn't often enforced.

@HaniiPuppy 8 лет назад

+TheCarbonMirror Considering those punishments were repealed by various acts between 1975 and 1984, you may be right.

@_IHateHandles_ 8 лет назад

TheCarbonMirror Put it this way, if it was still enforced Britain wouldn't have so many people living in it. XD

@adammullarkey4996 4 года назад

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).

@CasaVoid 2 года назад

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.

@herzkine Год назад

So it costs more to make a note than its value is?

@jaagup 8 лет назад

But what about euros? They vary in size.

@Migustinder 8 лет назад

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.

@overeighteen7688 8 лет назад

+Migustinder Pound notes have a hologram and tbh I wouldn't be surprised if Australian dollars did as well

@Azivegu 8 лет назад

hell, most US bills have one too

@HotEmboarNacho 8 лет назад

aussie ones do m8

@GamePro-pz8dl 8 лет назад

Euros are even waterproof

@chickenbird3397 7 лет назад

New Zealand currency has a log scale, is made from polymer AND was recently updated. (We also don't have poisonous spiders)

@roblostandlate.6005 7 лет назад

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?

@lejatzman96 2 года назад

Although you do have earthquakes and volcanos

@Chris_Cross 2 года назад

@@lejatzman96 So does Australia. (Technically speaking, although there are no active volcanoes on mainland Australia, there are on islands that belong to Australia)

@lejatzman96 2 года назад

@@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)

@pcbenutzer6651 3 года назад

Best money was 10 DM from Germany before Euro with Gauß on it.

@vale.antoni 2 года назад

The Venn-diagram missed a very important metric: The presence of the Queen to show who is boss

@ApplepieFTW 7 лет назад

aren't euros just better in this case? 5,10,20,50,100,200,500?

@MrGlove191 7 лет назад

No euroscum.

@ApplepieFTW 7 лет назад

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

@deddrz2549 7 лет назад

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.

@Spectarium 7 лет назад

its a waste of space in your wallet

@deddrz2549 7 лет назад

ya it was a joke lol

@JackDrewitt 8 лет назад

30%

@JackDrewitt 8 лет назад

+Jack Drewitt www.bankofengland.co.uk/banknotes/Documents/kyb_lo_res.pdf

@renter112 5 лет назад

But does the 100 smell like Maple?

@planetX15 5 лет назад

Smells like mint.

@geministargazer9830 4 года назад

No but Australia makes the Canadian money so..

@roblamb8327 4 года назад

@@geministargazer9830 so.... They smell of Eucalyptus?

@geministargazer9830 3 года назад

@@roblamb8327 Yep, scratch and sniff money

@DiegoideGetsNoBitches 2 года назад

So, euros dont exixst apparently... They are log scaled, waterproof and go up to 500, also they arrange in different colors.

@Soliloquy084 8 лет назад

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.

@biscuitsandbananas3433 8 лет назад

+Soliloquy Not if you go and ruin your flag.

@paulkennedy8701 8 лет назад

+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.)

@TheOrangeSloth 8 лет назад

+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.

@BandidoDescalzo 8 лет назад

+TheOrangeSloth but nobody likes cricket!! also +Soliloquy Your videos are amazing.

@Soliloquy084 8 лет назад

+josiah O'Neill Thanks, and seriously who would think a 5 day sports game is a good idea?

@sohrab4497 7 лет назад

What about Euro!? They have 200 and 500 Euro Bill

@jort93z 7 лет назад

not waterproofr though

@Joaguww 7 лет назад

OP PAI The euro is dead. worth diddly squat compared to AUS, US and UK

@007xgui 7 лет назад

General Josh Gaming The euro is worth more than the US dollar!

@pixeleric_ 7 лет назад

007xgui yeah your right

@mickeydiver17 7 лет назад

General Josh Gaming lol You wont get much over 60+ Euro cents for a AUD ! So how "dead" is our Aussie dollar?

@MrMoon-hy6pn 2 года назад

I find it funny how we had a typo on the "new" 50$ note not long ago

@rim7115 6 лет назад

The new Australian notes now also have different textures to aid blind people

@LawtonDigital 8 лет назад

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.

@greggcayman5031 8 лет назад

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.

@JohnSmith-pt4kn 8 лет назад

the notes are ugly though

@eldritchassassin9754 8 лет назад

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.)

@Malake256 8 лет назад

The R value shouldbe 0. When two variables show no correlation, they show a 0 r-value through the formula.

@kphan2484 8 лет назад

its zero bro, you need to rework your math, not him...

@ciangargan 7 лет назад

No the pound is the best currency. It's the most stable and has the most value, oh wait.........

@Chronic_Ruminator 7 лет назад

Brexit made me sad.

@tanmayagarwal4767 6 лет назад

BREXIT !!!!!!!!

@marcs9451 6 лет назад

Bitcoin

@Votive 6 лет назад

out of those three it is still the most valuable...

@TheHarrypropper 6 лет назад

Where are the EURO notes? They are washable and beachproof ;)

@chestercopperbottom 5 лет назад

1:40 I wouldn't come back to the U.S. if I were you,Matt. You just broke federal law.

@Abigailtries 5 лет назад

I love how after this video uk money changes to plastic

@GG-nq4qf 7 лет назад

I like Australia Notes but does log scale really matter

@dragon4c3_71 7 лет назад

Helps with counterfeiting.

@Staremperor 7 лет назад

What about euros?

@AustitoR 7 лет назад

bad

@Minimo360911 7 лет назад

Staremperor euros are cool, but the 200 and 500 seem pointless

@Chronic_Ruminator 7 лет назад

AussieGirl is savage.

@SimonS44 7 лет назад

Minimo my mum used some €500 notes to buy a new car (hint: cash is king here)

@Chris-np6zl 6 лет назад

Okay but what about European notes(the Euro), they are also not waterproof but the sizes (and colors) are different?

@becauseimafan 4 года назад

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 😁

@becauseimafan 4 года назад

Oh Steve Mould had our Canadian money?? Heck yes checking that out next 😁

@peterhowes5926 4 года назад

Ah Ah. Funny. Very funny 😑

@unsignedmusic 7 лет назад

What about New Zealand Notes?

@Zwank36 7 лет назад

NZ dont make their notes, in fact, they are outsourced to Canada and Australia.

@unsignedmusic 7 лет назад

Zwan So?

@snyparaustralis540 7 лет назад

theyre the same size as the aussie notes, just theyre printed in the wrong colours

@frostwalker7880 7 лет назад

Not true, New Zealand notes change in both height and width like the UK notes, while Australian notes only change in length

@Zwank36 7 лет назад

***** Well they arent NZ notes are they?

@cauebs 8 лет назад

what the hell was that at 3:15? is matt just a hologram?

@standupmaths 8 лет назад

+Cauê Baasch de Souza Either I'm a hologram or I need a new camera. It's hard to say for sure.

@unvergebeneid 8 лет назад

+standupmaths Good thing the green screen didn't glitch out. That might have torn the spacetime continuum.

@mugensamurai 2 года назад

It's true this stuff is so durable it will survive the apocalypse like Mad Max.

@nintendolover114 6 лет назад

Australia invented polymer and even print NZ, Canadas and fijis currencys

@geministargazer9830 4 года назад

Greg Dundee and Canada’s

@joynwaji2422 4 года назад

GeminiStargazer he said that

@iamasmurf1122 4 года назад

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

@idiocracy9530 7 лет назад

How does a blind person in USA pay 42$ in a shop without being able to tell the difference between the notes ?

@jdf2100 7 лет назад

Nicolaj H he moves to Australia lol

@TheGamingSyndrom 7 лет назад

Nicolaj H they run around with only 1$ notes

@CamelDance 7 лет назад

They fold their bank notes. Still, having different sizes would be nice to find out which is which even if they aren't folded.

@theywalkinguptoyouand4060 6 лет назад

Stultum Stulto how do they figure out the notes before folding them then?

@pikalover1756 6 лет назад

use a card

@kararossow8105 8 лет назад

this is why i love being an Aussie and still living in Australia

@atomatopia1 8 лет назад

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)

@markbravaco2912 8 лет назад

I agree. I didn't even know that Australian and UK notes are different sizes and colors: i am american :D

@Lolmank123 8 лет назад

+atomatopia1 we dont get mass shootings ty

@SK_Wizzard 7 лет назад

but then everything costs so much you dont have money left to look at

@SunsheildAndStuff 7 лет назад

But then we do have a minimum wage of $21 so yeah....

@benjaminlehman3221 5 лет назад

How are the cash register drawers in Australia? Are the places for notes all the size of the largest note or increase in length like the notes?

@Luke-zi3uw 7 лет назад

You can dunk the £5 in water and it won't tear. You are using the old £5 note in this video

@mickeydiver17 7 лет назад

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! :- )

@mickeydiver17 7 лет назад

Well so far anyway!

@BrekMartin 7 лет назад

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.

@mickeydiver17 7 лет назад

@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!

@mickeydiver17 7 лет назад

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 :- (

@BrekMartin 7 лет назад

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

@hamob1800 5 лет назад

Not to mention different colours making them easy to tell apart

@MON-ud7sw 3 года назад

He didn’t mention the holograms and all the security features of the Australian notes or that all polymer notes worldwide are either made in Australia at the Australian mint or under licence because the Australia was the developer of this technology.

@melissabarrett9750 Год назад

That's because the video was made 5 years before you saw it, which is prior to the latest updates to our currency.

@kylecow1930 7 лет назад

the new 5 pound is just like Australia n money

@kylecow1930 7 лет назад

***** thanks

@ashton5734 7 лет назад

KyleCow Australia got new banknotes too so they're not the same anymore

@hedgehogwillable 7 лет назад

The new 5 dollar Australian note looks like Canadian money

@rakalin9015 7 лет назад

but with braille

@blairmacp 7 лет назад

The new Australian notes that have just been released (only $5 so far) have Braille on them.

@Heligoland360 7 лет назад

I think the Australian mint knew you were making this video...

@pkmntrainermann4476 5 лет назад

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

@hannahwatermelon 2 года назад

I, as a Canadian, would like to submit a reevaluation with the added qualifier of the little window in the Canadian bills. I think this puts them far above the rest.

@plokkfiskur9094 2 года назад

That is sutch a good design, You can look through it, and in a stack you can see if there is anything in between the bills. Canadian doller 1# currency ( Also i just found outif a lazer pointer is shined throgh the maple leaf, the value of the note will be projected, that is just amazing)

@berendotto 7 лет назад

Romanian money is also waterproof and i think its on a logarithmic scale too!

@vladflaucher469 7 лет назад

Asta vroiam sa comentez

@daniel117100 7 лет назад

Yeah but Romania has no money

@geekybench 7 лет назад

Berend Otto Apply cold water to burnt area.

@jackchills 7 лет назад

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.

@jackchills 7 лет назад

And yes, I know you skipped over it, because it is the trivial solution; but it is a solution, and should be covered.

@YamamotoTV2021 8 месяцев назад

Great video! I enjoyed listening to 10 minutes of discussion of British pounds vs Australian dollars! ❤

@rowanbrown5541 2 года назад

I love how Americans make fun of other countries for having monopoly money while they sit there with a pocket full of "paper" money

@sevret313 8 лет назад

What about the coins, do they follow a log scale when you compare weight and value?

@bobaloochi 8 лет назад

+sevret313 In the US, at least, the weights of the dime, quarter, half-dollar, and pre-1979 dollar coins are equavalent to their value. 10 dimes weigh the same as 4 quarters, etc.

@OriginalPiMan 8 лет назад

+sevret313 Not in Australia, certainly. Our $2 coin is smaller than our $1 coin, and our $1 coin is smaller than the 20c and 50c coins (it is marginally thicker, but has a smaller total volume). Our 50c coin is also about the same size as our 20c coin; it just has a different shape.

@acediamond5399 8 лет назад

+bobaloochi They tried to do the same for the penny, but found it impossible to make a weightless coin.

@TheScabbage 8 лет назад

+Ace Diamond Aerogel! =O

@acediamond5399 8 лет назад

Scabbage They didn't think of that!

@EdwardHowton 8 лет назад

Do Aussie notes have the value marked into them in braille too? Canadian ones do. I imagine the material makes it easier to use braille with.

@TheSkytherMod 8 лет назад

+EdwardHowton On the clear part of the bill there is a pressed value.

@vitaliphotos 8 лет назад

+EdwardHowton Canadian notes need braille cause they are all the same size

@EdwardHowton 8 лет назад

vitaliphotos This is true, but I imagine it's difficult to compare bill sizes if you're blind anyway. Still, it's a good addition.

@thertsman8233 8 лет назад

+EdwardHowton I just found this, it's close to what you're asking i guess. banknotes.rba.gov.au/resources/for-people-with-vision-impairment

@Raabster 8 лет назад

+EdwardHowton Even before Canada switched to polymer notes, Canadian notes had raised marks. I cannot find WHEN these were added, but I remember them on the previous $5 notes (the ones with "The Sweater" quote.) www.bankofcanada.ca/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/10-2010-more_than_meets_eye.pdf

@Derek_Read 6 лет назад

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.

@2462bf2 3 года назад

Are you going to do an update to this video now we in the UK and such have plastic notes?

@margeobur315 7 лет назад

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

@margeobur315 7 лет назад

And we have the same note values

@margeobur315 7 лет назад

Not sure about size though... They definitely increase in size, but I'm not sure exactly how.

@wilfrancis554 7 лет назад

margeobur Australia invented and introduced polymer first, they were the first in the world (invented by CSIRO).

@AlexLaw_Qld 7 лет назад

Not quite first, there were a couple of polymer "paper" notes done by various printers before 1988.

@margeobur315 7 лет назад

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@TheSilverValkyrie 8 лет назад

Alright, Aussie notes may beat British on log scale and waterproofing... But which ones are worth more? Checkmate.

@jamesieuan839 8 лет назад

+DWSJordan I wish I could like that comment more than once XD

@OriginalPiMan 8 лет назад

+DWSJordan Our top note is worth about the same amount as your top non-Scottish note.

@JustinShaedo 8 лет назад

+DWSJordan I remember when a bunch of Poms (English) were out here losing the cricket and the Barmey Army were chanting "you get two dollars to the pound do dah do dah" ... just couldn't argue with that, and had to content our selves with another sporting win instead (that'll learn you to deport all your best sportspeople back when!)

@BrendanStuart 8 лет назад

+DWSJordan Ah, but out highest note is worth more than yours (just...)

@Poldovico 8 лет назад

+DWSJordan Australian $100 bills.

@w4ter741 4 года назад

And now the UK notes are waterproof

@c2thamax246 2 года назад

As an american college student I forgot there was such a thing as $100 bills. I think it was my mom who said something about them and I didn’t believe currency would come in such large increments because who could possibly have so much liquid wealth at one time to justify the existence of such bills. Of course then I realized I was just poor. Still haven’t seen one and probably won’t for 25 years when my student loans are paid off!