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by jacquesm 1042 days ago
Cent is short for 'centime' or 1/100th, so indeed, nobody is using three digits to represent cents. But there are currencies with finer grained denominations than cents.

0, 2, 3, 4 are all in use.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_4217