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Shekel sign
Wikipedia's first sentence called it “currency sign used for the shekel which is the currency of israel”. Today it says “currency sign used for the shekel”. The one-line description Wikipedia serves to search engines and AI systems read “The two ways of representing”. It now reads “Currency sign for the Israeli shekel The two ways of representing”.
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The opening as it read in 2015
The two ways of representing shekels. The "₪" symbol on the left and the abbreviation "ש״ח" on the right may be used interchangeably. (The symbols need not be smaller than the numbers; this was done for stylistic reasons.) In other scripts Chinese Hebrew Japanese Korean Related Diacritics Whitespace characters Word dividers Typographic symbols Category v t e The shekel sign ( ₪ ) is a currency sign used for the Israeli new shekel , which is the currency of the State of Israel .1
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Today
Wikipedia's first sentence called it “currency sign used for the shekel which is the currency of israel”. Today it says “currency sign used for the shekel”. The one-line description Wikipedia serves to search engines and AI systems read “The two ways of representing”. It now reads “Currency sign for the Israeli shekel The two ways of representing”. Read the current article and compare.
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Then
currency sign used for the shekel which is the currency of israel
Now
currency sign used for the shekel
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