I paid ninetyeight pennies (+ a few more for state tax)

but it's worth one hundred times that.

Edited by Bradley V. Smith; Published by Bantam Books (New York/Toronto/London); 1964

Powers -- Roots -- Reciprocals

Ha. 

Sort of makes my point, doesn't it?

See also Anthem, available in full online here. (See, you don't really need Wikipedia & you don't need the World Wide Web if you own the book!)

Chapter Ten

After hiking deep into a mountain range, Equality 7-2521 and the Golden One discover a house, left over from the Unmentionable Times. It seems exceptionally small to them, and when they find the bedroom, they realize that only two people lived there. They are amazed that two people would live by themselves. They claim the house as their own. Tomorrow, Equality 7-2521 will begin to read the strange books from the house's library.

[my emphasis]