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§ 5101. Decimal system
United States money is expressed in dollars, dimes or tenths, cents or hundreths,1
1 So in original. Probably should be “hundredths,”.
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.(Pub. L. 97–258, Sept. 13, 1982, 96 Stat. 980.)