David Conwill
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As a kid (and I’m fairly young, so this is not too long ago), I can remember commonly seeing prices identified with the cent sign, as in: 49¢ for a bottle of Testor’s model paint. Now that same price would be displayed as $0.49.
What happened? Is it inflation? Fewer and fewer things are available for less than a dollar. Or was there a major technological change that swept away the cent sign?
Perhaps the rise of computer use. The average keyboard does not have the cent sign, though it’s still available as a special character, so it’s faster to use the dollar sign and a decimal point.
-Dave
What happened? Is it inflation? Fewer and fewer things are available for less than a dollar. Or was there a major technological change that swept away the cent sign?
Perhaps the rise of computer use. The average keyboard does not have the cent sign, though it’s still available as a special character, so it’s faster to use the dollar sign and a decimal point.
-Dave