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Re:Why Is the Dollar Sign a Letter S? by SilasX on Sunday February 08, 2015 @08:58PM (#9019410)
>If you want to amuse yourself, count the times you see people write things like "$10 dollars". It's quite common. Technically it should mean 10 square dollars, whatever that is.

Not quite the same thing, but I had a senile biology teacher who looked for any pretense to deduct points on papers. For example, when you reported data from lab work in tabular form: "points off -- these numbers don't have units". "But the column headings indicate the units -- that would make it redundant!" "Not good enough."

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Re:Why Is the Dollar Sign a Letter S? by thornygreb on Monday February 09, 2015 @10:33AM (#9021635)
One of my first jobs, I was tasked with spray painting the price (99 cents each) of landscape timbers on a big pile of uh, landscape timbers. I painted '.99 c', and my boss said, you just gave them away for less than a penny. It is hard to un-spray paint a dot, lessen learned FOREVER.
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