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I'll let you know when I get one... Try a modifier key or two, like option or control, learn about keymapping. Otherwise, put in at least a feeble effort to clean it up manually. Just don't be a slob

You know, I was always under the impression that Slashdot people knew how to use their equipment. Maybe that's not the case anymore. Maybe it's an Apple thing..

Here you go! You accidentally lost this <

This site runs on filtered HTML. One might be looking for: & lt; (without that space). See link for more examples of this.
Note: Slashcode strips some of the extra spacing and the like out due to the ASCII, GNAA and similar trolls.

I do miss the ASCII DO NOT FEED THE TROLLS signs, though.

ASCII question, here's your ANSI (Not all characters render)

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Now, there's something you don't see everyday...

So these U+20xx have to be removed as well, but why remove the rest? Regarding below 0x20, in UTF-8 these single byte characters are also control characters which were probably filtered out by /. in the first place - that's why the AC used the U+20 chars.

Use the force

Voilà! mon chéri

Doesn't work with HTML codes either, I tried writing it as &deg; and as &#176; and it didn't work with either one

It's not Firefox, It's Slashdot. It doesn't display that stuff, so you have to fake it.

I'm tired. You win.

® -- Close enough?

Here's a handy, dandy reference page. Have fun...

It isn't as much math as a play on the way we pronounce money. .002 cents isn't the same as $0.002. But 20 cents is expressed as $0.20 and it would be correct int saying if you had $0.20 in change being returned to you, the cashier gave you 20 cents change. So, I don't know what it is called but it is one of those things that gets interchanged around enough that it was finally done wrong. I think were the problem might be is were you get partial number or numbers that aren't equal to a hole cent.

Whoever modded this up might work at Verizon.

What you said is all valid, but you said it as though it illustrates the problem. It doesn't.

Yes, $0.20 is the same as 20 cents. That's not disputed. The problem is that Verizon quoted (repeatedly) "0.002 cents", but charged "$0.002". "0.002 cents" can be rewritten as "$0.00002".

I would love to find out how this ends.

I am also considering sending a note to Verizon to find out whether they now know the difference. (Online contact form, mailing address varies by state, find yours here.)

Side note: Why doesn't the cent sign (" ") appear on /.? (I pasted one in between the quote marks on this line. But even using the escape code I found here doesn't work...

Sure it will, you just have to know html.
I <3 character codes