why is the dollar sign using an S?
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$hit? 🤔
asks a question during zapathon
not a smart move
It stands for: better $tack $ats
"One theory holds that the sign grew out of the Spanish and Spanish American scribal abbreviation "ps" for pesos. A study of late 18th- and early 19th-century manuscripts shows that the s gradually came to be written over the p, developing into a close equivalent to the "$" mark."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dollar_sign#Use_for_the_Spanish_American_peso_in_the_late_1700s
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