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Move me one place in an invoice and ten pounds becomes a hundred; I look tiny, but I can empty a budget. What am I?

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Hint: It changes scale without changing any digits.

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A misplaced decimal point

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A decimal point controls place value. Moving it one place can multiply an amount by ten and turn a small figure into a costly error.

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