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  2. Slang terms for money - Wikipedia

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    A one hundred dollar bill can also be called a buck, or a "dollar", but since a buck is also used for one dollar, the context needs to be clear (this continues the pattern of referring to values by the coin counterpart). A "hoka" is used to express a large sum of money, usually between ten thousand and fifty thousand dollars.

  3. English numerals - Wikipedia

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    10,000: a myriad (a hundred hundred), commonly used in the sense of an indefinite very high number. 100,000: a lakh (a hundred thousand), in Indian English. 10,000,000: a crore (a hundred lakh), in Indian English and written as 100,00,000. 10 100: googol (1 followed by 100 zeros), used in mathematics.

  4. How To Write Numbers in Words on a Check - AOL

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    Capital One recommends using the format “One thousand, five hundred and 00/100” for writing out $1,500. That would make $1,200 look like “One thousand, two hundred and 00/100.”

  5. History of the United States dollar - Wikipedia

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    t. e. The history of the United States dollar began with moves by the Founding Fathers of the United States of America to establish a national currency based on the Spanish silver dollar, which had been in use in the North American colonies of the Kingdom of Great Britain for over 100 years prior to the United States Declaration of Independence.

  6. Decimal separator - Wikipedia

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    Three ways to group the number ten thousand with digit group separators. 1) Space, the internationally recommended thousands separator. 2) Period (or full stop), the thousands separator used in many non-English speaking countries. 3) Comma, the thousands separator used in most English-speaking countries. A decimal separator is a symbol that ...

  7. United States dollar - Wikipedia

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    The quarter dollar coin is known as two bits, alluding the dollar's origins as the "piece of eight" (bits or reales). [19] The $1 bill is nicknamed buck or single. The infrequently-used $2 bill is sometimes called deuce, Tom, or Jefferson (after Thomas Jefferson). The $5 bill is sometimes called Lincoln (after Abraham Lincoln), fin, fiver, or ...

  8. Long and short scales - Wikipedia

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    The long and short scales are two of several naming systems for integer powers of ten which use some of the same terms for different magnitudes. [1] [2]Some languages, particularly in East Asia and South Asia, have large number naming systems that are different from both the long and short scales, such as the Indian numbering system and the Chinese, Japanese, or Korean numerals.

  9. Guyanese dollar - Wikipedia

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    The Spanish dollar unit should not be confused with the American dollar unit. The American dollar unit was first introduced in the US in the year 1792, based on the average weight of a selection of worn Spanish dollars. As such, the American dollar was marginally less valuable than the Spanish dollar.