What is the use of $$ sign in table name in Oracle Database

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I get to maintain a application which use $$ sign as prefix and suffix to some word in the table create statement - Oracle DB. like

create table $$temp$$(id int)

For testing purpose I ran the statement in SQL plus but it threw invalid character error and so I had to remove $$ sign and then it ran as expected.

Is there a specific use for $$? some thing related to session ?

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