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39,827: Announced attendance at last Saturday's home football game against Idaho, which the Cavaliers won 21-20 in overtime

61,500: Scott Stadium's capacity since a major expansion project lasting from 1997 until 2000 added 15,000 seats

5: Monthly fee, in dollars, that Bank of America will charge some customers for using their debit cards starting in 2012

299,792,458: Meters per second at which light travels, a speed which has long been regarded as the universe's upper limit

60: Billionths of a second by which a neutrino particle exceeded the speed of light in a recent test, according to CERN researchers

24,000: Number of people who attended the Virginia Film Festival last year, according to director Jody Kielbasa

0: Price, in dollars, that University students will have to pay to see most of the festival's films when it returns to Charlottesville Nov. 3-6

2.9 billion: Donald Trump's net worth, in dollars, as of September 2011, according to Forbes magazine

304.4 million: Fiscal year 2012 budget, in dollars, of Albemarle County, which Trump visited this week to celebrate his purchase of the former Kluge Estates

29.1: Percent of Charlottesville families who are impoverished or cannot support themselves without financial assistance

7: Number of candidates seeking election to Charlottesville City Council this fall\n3: Number of seats that are up for grabs in the election to be held Nov. 8

5: Members of The Cavalier Daily managing board charged by Honor Committee Chair Ann Marie McKenzie with violating Standard of Conduct 11 in an editorial, "Taking action," published Sept. 12

4: Members of the managing board whose charges subsequently were dropped

80,000: Metric tons by which the University has pledged to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions from 2009 levels within the next 14 years

5: Number of players from California on the Virginia volleyball team

2: Number of native Virginians on the same team

83: Percentage cut to federal funding for Hispanic-oriented colleges and universities included in a budget proposal issued last week by Republicans in the House of Representatives

10: Number of pass attempts by backup freshman quarterback David Watford through this season's first three games

20: Passes attempted each of the past two games by Watford, creating a quarterback controversy between him and starting sophomore Michael Rocco heading into the Oct. 15 game against No. 13 Georgia Tech

0: Number of issues The Cavalier Daily could have published this year without the recently deceased Steve Jobs, who founded Apple Inc. The company's products are essential to almost every stage of the production process, from story writing to page layout, and the paper's staff owes Jobs a debt of gratitude for his vision.

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