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Article #766Re: Computers and human languages (was Re: What is a byte)
From: Henry Spencer
Date: Sun, 23 Aug 1987 02:35
Date: Sun, 23 Aug 1987 02:35
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> P.S.: About extra letters: is the "$"-sign really the writing in one space
> of "U" and "S"? So: "U.S. dollar" --> "$ dollar"
Close. What I have been told is that the dollar sign is a scrunched form
of PS, with the loop of the P getting lost in the shuffle. Why PS? Because
the US took a long time to get its act together on a national currency, and
the Mexican peso saw considerable use meanwhile.
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Apollo was the doorway to the stars. | Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
Next time, we should open it. | {allegra,ihnp4,decvax,utai}!utzoo!henry
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