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Chrisshore is correct. One bit is 12.5 cents. During the colonial days, people used coins from all over the world. The most commonly used coin was the Spanish milled dollar. When the US adopted an official currency, the Spanish Milled Dolla...
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We vet six common benefits and list the savings -- and the catch. ... RT @robgarciasj How Much Are Credit-Card Perks Really Worth? http://bit.ly/44ruYe via @SmartMoney ... Personal Finance-How much are credit card perks really worth http://bit.ly/TLNlQ.
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www.smartmoney.com/spending/deals/how-much-are-credit-card-perks-really-worth/
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[Orchid] What is one bit? - Jewelry making instructions from Ganoksin orchid forums ... (The US, by the > way, was the first country in the world to adopt a metric system for > its currency.) One bit is an eighth of a Spanish dollar, a coin widely used in the Southeast and elsewhere back in the 17 and 18 hundreds,
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Much of the new silver was returned to Spain in the form of silver bars, but in 1632 the Mexico City Mint---the oldest mint in the new world--was established and began striking coins with the new silver. In 1772 the mint began to produce a new, machine made silver coin---the Spanish Dollar.
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Basically, dollar coins were used for everything for a long time... so the term bit is based off this coin. People would cut the coin into eight equal pieces and call them a bit. So 2/8 (1/4) of a dollar would be 25 cents. Check out the rea...
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"I'm running for president because of 54 years of my life I have believed to my soul that the men and women who worked in that mill with my father were worth every bit as much as the man that owned that mill."
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In a world where everything is being jammed into 140 characters or less, shorter is better. That goes double (or is it half?) ... ... Today, one of these URL shortening services, bit.ly, raised $2 million, sparking the question: How much are these things actually worth? Nobody really knows.
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www.techcrunch.com/2009/03/30/if-bitly-is-worth-8-milli...
www.techcrunch.com/2009/03/30/if-bitly-is-worth-8-million-tinyurl-is-worth-at-least-46-million/
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What's the value of a service that takes a long Web address and makes it shorter--but doesn't have a business model? ... So either things have gotten much better than we realized or the bit.ly investors think it’s still worth betting on fast-growing, revenue-free start-ups. It’d be nice if both things are true...
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mediamemo.allthingsd.com/20090330/is-a-shorter-web-addr...
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The Viral Loop Leaderboard: What Are Your Facebook Friends Worth? ... If Facebook, which in July passed 250 million users worldwide, were to follow Craigslist's model and monetize a fraction of its site -- worth, say, on the order of $1 per month for each user -- ... You can read the entire post here bit.ly/3zDOjW...
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