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| Crimes of InnumeracyThings that cost less than a pennyThis one my mother taught me when I was about six and we were in the supermarket shopping for fruit. If the price of something is .99¢, technically it costs less than a penny. Supermarkets often think all prices have to contain decimal points, even went the cent sign is used instead of the dollar sign. Ninety-nine cents is written "99¢" or "$.99."
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