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    > US$1.786 cents

There's got to be a better way of writing that

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Since that's just flat out wrong, yes. It's either $0.01786 or 1.786¢ (if you need to specify the US, then definitely the first with either “USD” or “US $” in place of the plain “$”.)

It would be more logical to to put units at the end, as the SI norms say.

eg: USD 24k is a bit stupid, whereas 24 kUSD is more clear. It's even worse with things like 1/(USD 800/kWp) which gives things like:.8kWp/USD 1 ?

The article title is flat out misleading too.

USD0.01786

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