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

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    Hyphenate all numbers under 100 that need more than one word. For example, $73 is written as “seventy-three,” and the words for $43.50 are “Forty-three and 50/100.”. You don’t need to ...

  3. Missing dollar riddle - Wikipedia

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    The solution appears very obvious if the owner withdraws every day only $10 from $50. To add up 40 + 30 + 20 + 10 using the same pattern from above would be too obviously wrong (result would be $100). The answer to the question, "Where did the extra dollar come from?” can be found from consecutively adding the bank rest from three different days.

  4. 144 (number) - Wikipedia

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    144 ( one hundred [and] forty-four) is the natural number following 143 and preceding 145 . It represents a dozen dozens, or one gross. It is the number of square inches in a square foot . In number theory, 144 is the twelfth Fibonacci number; it is the only Fibonacci number (other than 0, and 1) to also be a square. [1] [2]

  5. Forty acres and a mule - Wikipedia

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    General William T. Sherman, who issued the orders that were the genesis of forty acres and a mule. Forty acres and a mule was part of Special Field Orders No. 15, a wartime order proclaimed by Union General William Tecumseh Sherman on January 16, 1865, during the American Civil War, to allot land to some freed families, in plots of land no larger than 40 acres (16 ha).

  6. The Four Hundred (Gilded Age) - Wikipedia

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    The Four Hundred was a list of New York society during the Gilded Age, a group that was led by Caroline Schermerhorn Astor, the "Mrs. Astor", for many years. After her death, her role in society was filled by three women: Mamie Fish, Theresa Fair Oelrichs, and Alva Belmont, [2] known as the "triumvirate" of American society.

  7. Slang terms for money - Wikipedia

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    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.

  8. California gold rush - Wikipedia

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    e. The California gold rush (1848–1855) was a gold rush that began on January 24, 1848, when gold was found by James W. Marshall at Sutter's Mill in Coloma, California. [1] The news of gold brought approximately 300,000 people to California from the rest of the United States and abroad. [2] The sudden influx of gold into the money supply ...

  9. 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.