I went to the store to buy some compost. Pumpkin Pie said, "Look, that is $399 and that one is $899." I looked at what she was pointing to. Yes, without knowing about the superscripts it certainly looks like 399 or 899! I remember as a child thinking the same thing. Butterfly concurred that the notation was a bit odd and while she knew that it wasn't $899, she didn't understand why it wasn't listed with a decimal point. I then took the next couple of minutes to discuss the purpose of the superscript and how Pumpkin Pie was correct it was 899 cents but 8 dollars and 99 cents. I left laughing at what a great lesson with real applications we had just had. So much fun.
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