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Re:OnePlus One – $299 CyanogenMod 'killer' smartphone by wingerlang on Wednesday April 23, 2014 @07:19AM (#7633242)
Usually done by people who are not from a country where the currency symbol is after the sum.
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Re:OnePlus One – $299 CyanogenMod 'killer' smartphone by mitosis on Wednesday April 23, 2014 @11:39AM (#7634661)
Is there a country where it is usual to put the percent sign before the number? I sometimes see things like "%100 performance increase" on English web sites, and I wonder where that comes from.
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Re:OnePlus One – $299 CyanogenMod 'killer' smartphone by kissickas on Thursday April 24, 2014 @11:19PM (#7644574)
Persian, at least.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Percent_sign#Spacing

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