Federal · Title 31 — Money and Finance
31 U.S.C. § 5101: Decimal system
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United States money is expressed in dollars, dimes or tenths, cents or hundreths, 1 and mills or thousandths. A dime is a tenth of a dollar, a cent is a hundredth of a dollar, and a mill is a thousandth of a dollar. 1 So in original. Probably should be “hundredths,”.
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