Re: Symbol for money.

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From: John Jordan
Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2000 06:04

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lhp+news@toft-hp.dk (Lasse Hiller�e Petersen) dijo a todos por la
internet:

>>Still wish I knew where the dollar sign came from. Maybe it really did
>>come from U with S stuck on top.
>
>See my other post.
>
>I'm astonished that in this time and age, where the WWW provides everyone
>with nearly instant access to a virtually infinite wealth of information
>that can be easily checked and doublechecked for correctness and
>credibility, people still manage to post their uninformed, but incredible,
>beliefs without bothering to do at least a minimum of checking first. I
>wonder whether this is because of ignorance or because of malice, but I
>don't know which would be worse.

Of course. If it's on the web, it is surely correct.


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