Re: When to Use Pound Signs

[J Martin Rushton]

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On 05/01/16 23:42, David Bellows wrote:
> According to the Wikipedia article 
> (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Number_sign) in North America
> referring to # as "pound sign" dates back to at least 1932 in
> published material which predates ASCII by almost 30 years. The
> Wikipedia article provides a citation for this but I am unable to
> verify it. But I will note that I first learned it as "pound sign"
> in the early '70s which I doubt had anything to do with computer
> standards.

Interesting, but see also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pound.  you'll
note of course the irony that you are quoting a page entitled "Number
sign" no doubt!

> On Tue, Jan 5, 2016 at 3:17 PM, J Martin Rushton 
> <address@hidden> wrote: Just for the record: "£" is
> a pound sign, "#" is a hash.  Calling the hash sign a pound sign
> goes way back to the days of ASCII-7 and national ASCII variants.
> The UK national variant had a pound sign where plain ASCII had a
> hash.  If anyone is _really_ interested, the £ sign is a capital
> "L" (for libra, Latin for a pound) with a line through it, a bit
> like dollars and letter "S".
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