Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!decwrl!hayes.fai.alaska.edu!accuvax.nwu.edu!nucsrl!telecom-request From: rpw3%rigden.wpd@sgi.com (Rob Warnock) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: On the Trail of the Elusive Octothorpe Message-ID: <9342@accuvax.nwu.edu> Date: 26 Jun 90 07:08:50 GMT Sender: news@accuvax.nwu.edu Reply-To: Rob Warnock Organization: Silicon Graphics Inc., Mountain View, CA Lines: 17 Approved: Telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Submissions-To: telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Administrivia-To: telecom-request@eecs.nwu.edu X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 10, Issue 457, Message 6 of 12 In article <9204@accuvax.nwu.edu> erik@naggum.uu.no (Erik Naggum) writes: | 5# means "five lbs (pounds)" | This has later been confirmed by several good dictionaries and | reference works (read: theory), but I've never seen in it practice. It is often seen in the U.S. in the trucking/shipping/hauling environments. It's quite common for packages or crates to get their weight in pounds marked on the side with crayon or chalk in the "#" form, usually as the package is accepted into the shipper's system. (Many forms of shipping are weight-based.) Rob Warnock, MS-9U/510 rpw3@sgi.com rpw3@pei.com Silicon Graphics, Inc. (415)335-1673 Protocol Engines, Inc. 2011 N. Shoreline Blvd. Mountain View, CA 94039-7311