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Originally Posted by HarryT
That still doesn't explain why they write ".99c" when they mean "99c". The "c" symbol clearly specifies that it's money, does it not?
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In the old days of typewriter keyboards there was an actual cent symbol (a c with a line down through it) but while we still have an easily accessible dollar sign $ the cent symbol isn't included in the standard keyboard for computers, so I think that people put it as .99c in order to do the next best thing because they did do something similar back in the day of the typewriter.