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United States. Banknote for "Twelve and a Half Cents" = $ 1⁄8, Alabama, 1838. In the US, the bit is equal to ¢, 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. $ or 1 silver real was 1 "bit".
A simple fraction (also known as a common fraction or vulgar fraction, where vulgar is Latin for "common") is a rational number written as a / b or , where a and b are both integers. [9] As with other fractions, the denominator (b) cannot be zero. Examples include 1 2 , − 8 5 , −8 5 , and 8 −5 .
Prior to making the announcement, Trump held two significant meetings related to ExIm—an April 3 formal visit with Egyptian president Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, who was negotiating for billions of dollars in ExIm financing, [305] and an April 11 meeting with Boeing Chief Executive Jim McNerney. [302]
Slang terms for money often derive from the appearance and features of banknotes or coins, their values, historical associations or the units of currency concerned. Within a language community, some of the slang terms vary in social, ethnic, economic, and geographic strata but others have become the dominant way of referring to the currency and are regarded as mainstream, acceptable language ...
2/5. 2/5 or 2⁄5 may refer to: February 5 (month-day date notation) 2 May (day-month date notation) 2nd Battalion, 5th Marines. The fraction, two fifths.
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 ...
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.
The gender pay gap in the United States is a measure comparing the earnings of men and women in the workforce. The average female annual earnings is around 80% of the average male's. When variables such as hours worked, occupations chosen, and education and job experience are controlled for, the gap diminishes with females earning 95% as much ...