'Cause there’s no cents sign on my keyboard? When, exactly, did this little symbol, so dear to all 3rd grade math teachers, disappear from our keyboards (computer ones, at least)?
And the problem with small furry animals
in corners is that, just occasionally,
one of them’s a mongoose.
Terry Pratchett, Witches Abroad
Had to make room for that backslash somehow.
Dopeler effect:
The tendency of stupid ideas to seem smarter when they come at you rapidly.
Good question. I wonder if it has anything to do with $0.02? Seriously.
All this science, I don’t understand. It’s just my job 5 days a week-- Rocketman
I was pretty delighted when I found out I could make it by holding down my option key and hitting the dollar sign: ¢
See? 2¢.
Hee hee. My keyboard turned into a symbol wonderland when I discovered the ol’ option key.
“It says, I choo-choo-choose you. And it’s got a picture of a train.”
– Ralph Wiggum
OOOH! OOOHHH!
Thanks, Unc! I just looked at the backslash, and there’s some other symbol there. It looks like a colon on Jenny Craig! What the hell is that?
And the problem with small furry animals
in corners is that, just occasionally,
one of them’s a mongoose.
Terry Pratchett, Witches Abroad
Well, Flyp, if you care to examine Jenny Craig’s colon… 
Bravo to Polycarp. quick, very quick.
All this science, I don’t understand. It’s just my job 5 days a week-- Rocketman
You mean this one?
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I have absolutely no idea.
Well, have we made this thread mundane and pointless enough to be banished?
Dopeler effect:
The tendency of stupid ideas to seem smarter when they come at you rapidly.
Not just yet, Uncle.
I thought everybody knew that PCs made no cents.
Livin’ on Tums, Vitamin E and Rogaine
The | symbol is called a “pipe”. It’s used in Unix (and in DOS, for that matter) to take the output of one program and give it as input to another program.
What a bunch of cut-ups, or is that cut-and-pastes?
I’m glad it’s late on Friday. I think I better stop at the bar on the way home.
Dopeler effect:
The tendency of stupid ideas to seem smarter when they come at you rapidly.
Oh great, thanks torq. You gotta make a double-post with a serious answer and ruin a thread headed straight to hell. 
Dopeler effect:
The tendency of stupid ideas to seem smarter when they come at you rapidly.
You should also be able to make it by hitting ALT+155 on your keyboard. If it doesn’t work in a SD post, try it with another program.
My 2¢
Show offs.
And the problem with small furry animals
in corners is that, just occasionally,
one of them’s a mongoose.
Terry Pratchett, Witches Abroad
On my PC, I can make it by pressing Ctrl-/-c.
I cannot do this in the window I am typing in right now. However, I can paste that symbol into this window - in fact, here it is: ¢
Learn something new every day…
Yer pal,
Satan
Actually it ALT + 155 on the numeric keyboard, the regular number keys don’t do that on all keyboards. Geeez…didn’t any of you guys ever learn DOS?
Another ¢¢less post
JB
Lex Non Favet Delictorum Votis
Well, before you get this thread locked, you gotta tell me how to print the symbol for infinity. Accoring to one Web page I found, it’s like ASCII 452 ! You can’t do dat. I don’t unnerstan’ why it got shoved so far outta existence.
Ray (tryin’ ta rotate ‘8’ 90 deg)
The pipe is also used in some programs for concatenation of text.
Reality is for people who can’t handle drugs.
-Tom Waits
Why is it $2 but 2c, that is, after the number? They also stick foreign currecy symbols in front, DMk 200. What’s the Euro symbol?
The Euro (no “dollar”) is represented by a capital C with two horizontal strokes through the middle. (On a typewriter, you could approximate it by typing the capital C, then backspacing and typing the = (equal sign).
There are a number of companies offering TrueType Fonts that include the Euro. I don’t know whether there is an ASCII or HTML code for it, yet.
A Google search for “currency symbols” will turn up several of the vendors mentioned, above.
Tom~