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From: gt2438b@prism.gatech.EDU (gt2438b gt2438b SAGER,JON EDWARD)
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Re: Name that character!
Message-ID: <30090@hydra.gatech.EDU>
Date: 29 May 91 16:53:23 GMT
References: <10599@castle.ed.ac.uk> <azPmJYC3NWq1.@idunno.Princeton.EDU> <448@mwuk.UUCP>
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In article <448@mwuk.UUCP>, tony@mwuk.UUCP (Tony Mountifield) writes:
> > 	pound -- DEFINITELY pound :-)
> 
> I have never understood why this gets called a "pound" sign in the US.
> Could it be something to do with the fact that many UK terminals and
> printers put the pound-sterling symbol on ASCII 0x23, which comes out on
> US equipment as '#' (which is DEFINITELY "hash" :-) ?

I've seen it used like "Give me 4# of beef."  That's how I learned it.

'Boxer

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