This may be stupid but why do computer keyboards have a dollar ($) symbol but no cent symbol?
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well they do. if you're on an ibm computer, hold down ALT and then type numbers, like "ALT 666" makes the symbol Ü, and you can keep typing in different numbers and i think eventually you will get the cents symbol. besides, people don't usually write out the cents symbol. if you're going to write "55 cents", you usually write it as "$.55".
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Santosh is correct, both work...\n\nI want to know how you use the ∫ symbol!! I just copied & pasted from yours..what's the keystroke for it??
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The Insert key (often abbreviated to INS) commonly found on keyboards is mostly used to switch between the two main modes of entering text on a computer. The first is Overstrike-mode, where the cursor, when typing, overwrites any text that is present on and after it's current location and which isn't used much anymore. Most Operating Systems only use insert-mode, where the cursor inserts characters at its current position between two other characters. \n\nThe Insert key would traditionally take you into insert-mode. However this is usually the default mode on modern Operating Systems. On Apple Macintosh computers the key is rebranded into a Help key. When you press the key the Help-functionality of the application will be launched. However when using commandline applications it still behaves like the Insert key for compatibility reasons. \n\nHOWEVER, I HATE IT AND I HAVE NEVER WANTED TO USE IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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hold down ALT key and type 0176 on the number keypad then relase ALT and you get °\n\ndon't use the numbers on top of the letters, only the numbers in the calculator like bit on the side work,
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If your on a laptop hold FN+ALT+0153\nOr how ever you do those special characters but the combination is 0153. When making name but that combination in and you should get a ™\nVote mines best answer
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If I recall, it's something along the lines of ALT + 3. It's a single number, lower digits. I'm on a laptop, so I can't test it.
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you mean an underscore? ______\n\nif thats what you mean, its the key to the right of 0 and to the left of =\n\nits normally the hyphen key but you can press shift to make it an underscore
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There is no ascii code for those keys.  They have keyboard scan codes that change the states of how to interpret others keys.
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There was a very good reason, but that reason is worthless now.\n\nRemember in the old days when typewriters had little arms attached to the keys that would go up and strike the ink ribbon and imprint the letter on paper?  Well, if you have ever typed on a typewriter like this, you know that if you hit 2 keys close together you would get the arms stuck.  The keyboard layout was made such that the likelyhood of the arms getting stuck together was minimal.\n\nIf anyone tells you that the keyboard layout is for ergonomic reasons that is the furthest from the truth.  The layout was the best working layout to prevent the typewriters from constantly jamming.  The reason for not changing it? Because that's the way it's always been.
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where are you from! i don't understand your question but here it goes one dollar in the USA is $1.oo is that what you wanted?
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A dollar is 100 cents (pennies).  Consequently, a half dollar is 50 cents and a quarter dollar is 25 cents.\n\n.0296 x 1 dollar is about 3 cents which is 3% of a dollar - not enough to buy a piece of gum.\n.0018 x 1 dollar is much less than a single penny - basically nothing.\n\nWhat is your currency? I assume it is not US dollars so it might help you better understand if you convert .03 dollars into your money.  Try: http://www.xe.com/ucc/
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Without an international keyboard, it'll take a little work. Here's one way to do it.\n\nFirst, go here...\n\nhttp://www.lookuptables.com/\n\n...and look at the bottom of the page under "extended ASCII codes." Look through the international symbols for what you need - for example, the "à" symbol. To make it come up while you're typing, hold down ctrl and then on your numeric keypad (not the 1-9 above the letter keys) type in 133. When you release ctrl you should see "à" or whatever symbol you picked. As long as the font you're using supports those characters, it should work.
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The answer is obvious.\n\nIt's because ^%&%$&^$&%£%&^*&*  hgvfjhjh ^%776576&*900\nFJHf (*6986ymn kl/h,.\n\nI hope that helps.
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Duh! All keyboards have the 2 and @ on the same key, same with ' and "! It's suposed to be like that!
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Standard computer keyboards have the @ above the 2 and the " above the '.\n\nThat's the way all keyboards are designed. I don't think there's a way to switch them around.\n\nI haven't seen the " above the 2 since the old mechanical typewriters.\n\nThis is the way it is now.  Every keyboard made is this way. I would really recommend getting used to it. It's not going to change.
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British Sterling\n In a Windows environment, the pound symbol is accessed with the alt key+0163.
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The sign is attested in business correspondence between British North America and Mexico in the 1770s as referring to the Spanish-Mexican piastre. The piastre was known as "Spanish dollar" in British North America, and in 1785, it was adopted as U.S. currency, together with both the term "dollar" and the $ sign.\n\nThe sign's ultimate origins are not certain. The most widely accepted explanation, according to the U.S. Bureau of Engraving and Printing, is that "$" is a corruption of the letters "PS" or "Ps" (for 'peso' or 'piastre' - especially the former, as each letter could represent each syllable of "Pé-So") written over each other in Spanish. Eventually, the 'P' was reduced to a vertical line.\n\nAnother possibility is that it derives from the British notation 8/ for eight shilling, referring to the Spanish 8 reales coin ("piece of eight"), which later became the USA dollar. Others derive it from the Portuguese Cifrão sign .\n\nEarliest usage wrote the sign with a single vertical stroke. For some time, the double-stroke symbol  was common, but is now again falling out of use.