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From: rpw3@amdcad.UUCP
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Subject: Re: smail pronounciation
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Date: Thu, 26-Feb-87 02:05:16 EST
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Posted: Thu Feb 26 02:05:16 1987
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Reply-To: rpw3@amdcad.UUCP (Rob Warnock)
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Summary: "23#" means "twenty-three pounds"

In article <356@spar.SPAR.SLB.COM> singer@spar.UUCP (David Singer) writes:
>Does the 'pound sign' come from the fact that in UK ASCII this position
>is/was printed as a British poubd sterling currency marker?

No, long before that freight companies used it (and still use it) to mean
"pound", as in weight. So if you see "23#" on the side of a box, it means
"this weighs twenty-three pounds".


Rob Warnock
Systems Architecture Consultant

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