<unk>  has been described in slightly different terms by various authors. One Time article that reported on the condition described it as follows: With the price of bread running into billions a loaf the German people have had to get used to counting in thousands of billions. This, according to some German physicians, brought on a new nervous disease known as<unk> ," or "cipher<unk> ," which may, however, be classed with neuritis as cipheritis. The persons afflicted with the malady are perfectly normal, except "for a desire to write endless rows of ciphers and engage in computations more involved than the most difficult problems in logarithms." Another newspaper article at the time described the condition as:<unk>  is the name of the latest German ailment. It is the nervous affliction of bookkeepers who grow dizzy from the number of ciphers that must be set in a row after the integers before German marks are sufficiently numerous to come within hailing distance of real money. Cashiers, bookkeepers, and bankers were reportedly the most prone to this affliction. Besides a compulsion to write endless strings of<unk> s, individuals that suffered from this condition would reportedly become confused when referring to numbers and would state that they were ten billion years old or had forty trillion children. Later John Kenneth Galbraith would describe the condition in his 1975 book Money: Whence It Came, Where It Went:<unk> ' or 'cipher<unk> ' is the name created by German physicians for a prevalent nervous malady brought about by the present fantastic currency figures. Scores of cases of the<unk> ' are reported among men and women of all classes, who have been prostrated by their efforts to figure in thousands of millions. Many of these persons are apparently normal, except for their desire to write endless rows of ciphers.
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