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A fistful of dollars
There are eight hundred dollars in $800.
1 lakh dollars is 100,000 dollars.
A million thousand dollars is $1,000,000,000.00 (1 billion dollars).
A sawbuck is worth 10 dollars. It got its name from the carpentry tool we call a work horse. Its legs resembled an X which is 10 in Roman Numerals.
Kugelmass pays Persky a "double sawbuck" equivalent to twenty dollars per visit.
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The sawbuck is a ten dollar bill. Break down the change anyway you want.
The $10
A ten dollar bill is known as a "sawbuck." Early tens had a Roman numeral X, which was thought to resemble a carpenter's sawhorse, or sawbuck, as it was also known. A twenty dollar bill is often called a "Double Sawbuck."
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Useless for it's purpose.
The word buck - possibly an abbreviation of buckskin or buckarooney, an intrinsic "currency" for trade with American Indians known since 1746 - has been recorded since 1856 and is widely used as a synonym for the dollars of many countries, including Australia, Canada, New Zealand, Hong Kong and the United States and also for rupees in India and Pakistan.AlsoOne wonders whether "buck" might not have been derived from "sawbuck" by the logic of "A sawbuck is ten dollars, so one dollar must be just 'a buck'." Hey, it's not impossible.
Sawbuck: A sawbuck is typically another name for a sawhorse; in particular one which, at each end, has a crossed pair of legs. It is also slang for a ten-dollar bill as older versions of this particular bill incorporated "X", which is the Roman numeral for the number ten. The slang term came into use as the numeral resembles the end of a sawhorse.
I got the whole shebang for a sawbuck!
One dollar, or one buck.