The Demise of the $.01 Sign
When I was a boy, not so long ago, there was a thing called the cent sign. It looked like this: It was the dollar sign's little brother, and lived on comic books covers and in newspaper advertisements and on pay phones and wherever anything was being sold for less than a buck. It was a popular punctuation symbol no question mark, or dollar sign, certainly, but just behind the * in popularity, ...
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