Some non-integral values, like dollars-and-cents decimals, require exactness.

一些非整数值（如几美元和几美分这样的小数）需要很精确。

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A look at the strange variations in tuition reveals that the choice about which college to attend doesn't come down merely to dollars and cents.

看看学费的奇怪变动就会发现，选择上哪所大学并不仅仅取决于金钱。

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Ropes and nets were dollars and cents.

拉绳和网都是值钱的东西。

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It says for every ten dollar necklace sold, the beader gets two dollars and forty-three cents in money or materials.

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She gave the shopkeeper twenty-one dollars and she hurried home with the eighty-seven cents that was left.

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A ticket to ride the train from Chicago to Seattle,Washington was fifty-one dollars and fifty cents.

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But home is and always will be where the heart is, and that transcends the dollars-and-cents mechanics of home ownership.

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It's obviously more of a dollars-and-cents gamble that Fallon is the future.

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Does that attitude short-change dollars-and-cents realities?

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