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" Spanish piece of eight, which had always been the coin most current among us, and to which we had given a name of our own — a dollar. Introducing the principle of decimal divisions, we said, a tenth part of our dollar shall be called a dime, a hundredth... "
An inquiry into the principles involved in the decimalization of the weights ... - Page 78
by Robert Slater - 1855
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Report Upon Weights and Measures, Issues 1-7

United States. Department of State, John Quincy Adams - Weights and measures - 1821 - 276 pages
...part of our dollar shall be called a dime, a hundredth part a cent, and a thousandth part a millr. Like the French, we took all these new denominations...The French themselves, in the application of their system to their coins, have followed our example ; and, assuming the franc for their unit, call its...
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The North American Review, Volume 14

Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - American fiction - 1822 - 488 pages
...we said a tenth part of our dollar shall be called a dime, a hundredth part a cent, and a thousandth part a mille. Like the French, we took all these new...The French themselves, in the application of their system to their coins, have followed our example ; and, assuming the franc for their unit, call its...
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The Decimal System in Numbers, Coins, and Accounts: Especially with ...

John Bowring - Decimal system - 1854 - 302 pages
...said, a tenth part of our dollar shall be called a dime, a hundredth part a cent, and a thousandth part a mille. Like the French, we took all these new...The French themselves, in the application of their system to their coins, have followed our example ; and, assuming the franc for their unit, call its...
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The Metric System

Charles Davies - 1871 - 386 pages
...said, a tenth part of our dollar shall be called a dime, a hundredth part a cent, and a thousandth part a mille. Like the French, we took all these new...The French themselves, in the application of their system to their coins, have followed our example; and, assuming the franc for their unit, call its...
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The North American Review, Volume 14

Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - American fiction - 1822 - 502 pages
...we said a tenth part of our dollar shall be called a dime, a hundredth part a cent, and a thousandth part a mille. Like the French, we took all these new...syllables to the generic term dollar, we reduced them to monosyltables, and made each of them significant by itself, without reference to the unit, of which...
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