Is there any difference between nofollow and external nofollow tag?

I know about rel=”nofollow” tag, was introduced by the Google in 2005. Google do not pass any PR juice to the targeted link, if nofollow tag used. I have seen more than one site using "external nofollow" tags. So question is that, is there any difference between them and is they matter for search engine optimization?

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