This Wikipedia page on royalties
has a list of the statutory royalty rates for webcasts and lists all the royalties in the “0.0x¢” format. Are they making a mistake or is the “0.02¢” format completely acceptable because everyone knows it means “$0.02¢”? I can’t decide. 
Ask Verizon.
Yeah I know about the Verizon debacle. But a spoken “point zero two cents” is clear, and is different from a written “0.02¢”, isn’t it?
“20¢” means twenty cents.
“2¢” means two cents.
“0.2¢” means two tenths of a cent.
"0.02¢"means two hundredths of a cent.
“0.002¢” means two thousandths of a cent.
And so on.
It is totally unambiguous. Well, except for people screw it up so much that you have to double check that they wrote what they really meant to write.
“$20.00” means twenty dollars.
“$2.00” means two dollars.
“$0.20” means twenty cents.
“$0.02” means two cents.
“$0.002” means two tenths of a cent.
“$0.02¢” is totally meaningless.
It’s only ambiguous because the average moron doesn’t understand the difference, and when they see .02 anything, they assume “2 cents.”
Joe
0.02¢ means exactly what it says. Two thousandths of a cent.
I have no idea what you mean by $0.02¢
The problem is, it *should *be unambiguous, but it is so often done wrong. Loads of prices are marked in the form, e.g. 0.49c when they mean 49c.
The U.S. Copyright Office does not make this error.
Or, when they want to write two cents, they start with .02, then add the cents sign instead of using the correct dollar sign.
In this case, since they’re linking to a official US Copyright Office document, I would assume they did not make an obvious mistake, and they really mean 2 hundredths of a cent.
The first column to the right of the decimal is the tenths column.
The second column to the right of the decimal is the hundredths column.
The third column to the right of the decimal is the thousandths column.
0.02¢ is two hundredths of a cent.
0.002¢ is two thousandths of a cent.
I keep on saying that one of these days, I’m gonna go up to the cash register and produce a single penny to pay for an item marked ‘.99¢’.
If I ever do, I’ll be sure to share the story here.
If they wanted to write it in the .02 format they should have wrote it as $.02
:smack: Of course I knew that. What’s that law about getting things wrong in your own post correcting someone else?
But they don’t mean $0.02. They mean 0.02¢, which is $0.0002
Be sure to tell them they can keep the change. 
ETA: Never mind. I thought there was supposed to be a “$0.02¢” format.
Now if we could just get people to stop writing “$20 dollars.”
And VIN number, ATM machine, etc…
Y’all need to file a complaint with the Department of Repetition and Redundancy Division.
I remember this, does anyone have a link?
Here the full version: http://verizonmath.blogspot.com/2007/08/original-recording-of-verizon-customer.html
There are some shortened versions on youtube; I wouldn’t be half as patient as this guy though.