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From: stever@videovax.Tek.COM (Steven E. Rice, P.E.)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.d
Subject: Re: smail pronounciation (or in this case '#')
Message-ID: <4264@videovax.Tek.COM>
Date: Fri, 6-Mar-87 11:11:37 EST
Article-I.D.: videovax.4264
Posted: Fri Mar  6 11:11:37 1987
Date-Received: Sun, 8-Mar-87 12:48:14 EST
References: <6905@clyde.ATT.COM> <246@roosta.btnix.uucp>
Reply-To: stever@videovax.Tek.COM (Steven E. Rice, P.E.)
Organization: Tektronix Television Systems, Beaverton, Oregon
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In article <246@roosta.btnix.uucp>, Neil Winton (winton@btnix.uucp) writes:

> . . .

> Hmmmmm.... at the risk of seeming pedantic (but why should that bother me,
> no-one else seems TOO worried :-), here in the UK, where it actually matters
> how we represent our currency, a `#' is most definitely NOT a `pound' sign.
> . . .

No idea where it came from, but the pound sign (#) was used in the U.S.
to denote weight (as opposed to money) long before there were computers!

					Steve Rice

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