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Anyway, the best answer is, essentially, there were a bunch of nerds and computer programmers who designed two totally different keyboard designs. While it doesn't say this, my guess would be one of them had the cent sign on it, while the other (the ancestor of the modern keyboard design) didn't. Since at the time the Army and military were the only people who used computers for the most part (this was while Bill Gates and Steve Jobs were probably still in 4th grade, maybe they weren't even born yet), they made the final decision: They picked the keyboard without the cent sign. There are ways to get it to show up. Since I'm on a Windows, I don't know how to do it on a Mac. There are codes for the ALT key, the key near the control key that seems totally useless. Just type "alt codes" into Google and you'll find some.

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8y ago

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