Comment on Ask HN: Spending Tracking ToolsparentComments−laurent_du1y"Pactole" means "heap of money" in French slang. As in a heap of money you keep under your matrass, or a large sum you win suddenly. Hence Paktol.−cfiggers1yAh, that makes sense! I googled it and the only thing I found spelling it the way the app does is that it's a word meaning "sorcery" in a language from the Philippines that I've never heard of before this...https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/paktol
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"Pactole" means "heap of money" in French slang. As in a heap of money you keep under your matrass, or a large sum you win suddenly. Hence Paktol.
Ah, that makes sense! I googled it and the only thing I found spelling it the way the app does is that it's a word meaning "sorcery" in a language from the Philippines that I've never heard of before this...
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/paktol