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Re: Symbol for money.

#6924
From: Alt
Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2000 00:00
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Seth Gordon wrote:

> ? In article ?3A171D19.4C770E2E@card.kyiv.net?, Alt  ?alt@card.kyiv.net? wrote:
> ? ? I propose to substitute the symbol of dollar by neural symbol of money.
> ? ? How to mark it ?
> ? ? I propose use for such goal letter "A" with two horizontal lines instead
> ?
>
> Isn't that the symbol for the Argentine unit of currency, the Austral?

May be ... unfortunately I did not check.

>  (Or has
> Argentina re-renamed its money and used a new symbol for it?)
>

As far as I know, Australes was canceled after monetary reform.And I saw on TV,
few years ago, how guys cut the name of country from
such banknotes and pushed it like Australian dollars. :)))
And there was idiots who was trap up in it.

> --
> "The big dig might come in handy ... for a few project managers
>  whom I think would make great landfill."  --Elaine Ashton
> == seth gordon == sgordon@kenan.com == standard disclaimer ==
> == documentation group, kenan systems corp., cambridge, ma ==
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From: Alt <alt@card.kyiv.net>
Subject: Re: Symbol for money.
Date: 2000/11/21
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