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Banknote for "Twelve and a Half Cents" = $ 1 ⁄ 8, Alabama, 1838. In the US, the bit is equal to 12 + 1 ⁄ 2 ¢, a designation which dates from the colonial period, when the most common unit of currency used was the Spanish dollar, also known as "piece of eight", which was worth 8 Spanish silver reales. $ 1 ⁄ 8 or 1 silver real was 1 "bit ...
A bit is an antiquated term equal to one eighth of a dollar or 12 + 1 ⁄ 2 cents, after the Spanish 8-Real "piece of eight" coin on which the U.S. dollar was initially based. So "two bits" is twenty-five cents; similarly, "four bits" is fifty cents. More rare are "six bits" (75 cents) and "eight bits" meaning a dollar.
For example, a gasoline price of $3.019 per gallon, if pronounced in full, would be "three dollars [and] one and nine-tenths cents" or "three <point> zero-one-nine dollars". Discount coupons, such as those for grocery items, usually include in their fine print a statement such as "Cash value less than 1 ⁄ 10 of 1 cent". There are also common ...
If the return in 2015 was 10% in Singapore dollars, and the Singapore dollar rose by 5% against the US dollar over 2015, then so long as there were no flows in 2015, the return over 2015 in US dollars is: 1.1 x 1.05 − 1 = 15.5%. The return between the beginning of 2015 and the end of January 2016 in US dollars is: 1.155 x 1.07 − 1 = 23.585%
One day, he takes out a microloan for $100. He opens a fruit stand that sells apples for 50 cents each. He sells around 20 a day, so now he’s earning $10. Success! But then the bank starts giving loans to lots of other people in the village, too. Suddenly everyone is selling apples, and Joey has to sell his for 25 cents each to compete.
Due to inflation, one nickel in 2017 was worth approximately what a penny was worth in 1974. [1] When the United States discontinued the half-cent coin in 1857, it had a 2023-equivalent buying power of about 16 cents. [1] After 1857, the new smallest coin was the one-cent, which had a 2023-equivalent buying power of 33 cents.
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The producer price index released a day earlier on January 14 reported a modest 0.3% increase in wholesale prices in December, rising 3.3% year over year, up from 3% in November.