Yes and no, I guess. It’s the arbitrary, prescriptive way to write cents that USians learn in school.
It would look wrong to me if I saw a sign advertising something for ¢50 or 0.50$.
That said, I also learned to always put commas inside the quotation, “like so,” but I think that’s super dumb and I refuse to do it.














Imagine how creepy that would be from her perspective. Someone shows up and is trying a little too hard to be friends, that’s weird but ok. But now they know things about me that I never told them. Eek!