Counting money what is cents

what are cents, one cent is 1 unit of money subdivide by 100 if you have dollars one cent is 1/100 of a dollar, if you have Brazillian money one centavo is one real subdivide by 1/100. So you are counting cents when you have 100 cents is the same that one dollar for American money and one real for Brazillian money, 2 coins of 50cents is one dollar or one real in Brazilian money, and 1000 in cents are 10 dollar or 10 real, 2000 cents is 20 dollar. Rute Bezerra de Menezes Gondim 

Ps.:Would be always that way I think that when in Brazil was reis the bill worth a lot and the coin was 1/1000 of the bill.