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Great example of how information is sometimes compartmentalized arbitrarily in the brain: I imagine you have never been confused by sentences such as “I’m running at 10 km/h”.

Dollar signs go before the number, not after it like units. It needs to be 1000 pages/$1 to make sense, whereas 10km and 10h and 10/h all make sense so 10km/h does. I imagine you would be confused by km/h 10 but not $10.

In the EU we put the € symbol after the number so it feels more natural to do that for $ as well.

Yeah you can read it as "pages per dollar" or as a unit "pages/$", it all comes out the same meaning.

Hmm, can it read small print? ;)

Ya, presumably it is missing the number `1.00`.

Not really. When you go 60 mph (or km/h) you don't specify the 1.00 for the hours either. pages/$ is the unit, 1000 is the value.

But you do for virtually all other cloud pricing pages.