Cricket Rantings

[Alex]

Originally Posted by Gemini Cricket

So, why isn't there a "cents" sign on my keyboard anywhere. It could replace ~ or ^ which I rarely use. Wouldn't that be handy? It makes... no... cents... to me.
lol

I actually know the serious answer to this but in my quest to become a better person I am endeavoring to better recognize the so called rhetorical question.

But just in case I'll point you to this recap of the history. (Short answer -- I JUST CAN'T HELP MYSELF!! -- is that the ASCII standard only had room for 128 characters and needed to include some things not on an old typewriter keyboard, so some things just had to be dropped; the standard was done by engineers for whom ~ and ^ are much more important than ¢)