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> he's a retired billionaire

Not even. He's a "middle-aged tech centimillionaire."

I think they really meant hectomillionaire?

“Centi” means one hundredth. In other words he is worth in the order of $10,000.

I think centi can mean either a hundredth or a hundred. It was appropriated by the metric system to mean a hundredth, but that doesn't obliterate the other sense.

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