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From: scm@datlog.co.uk ( Steve Mawer )
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Pound sign (was Re: the Telephone Test)
Message-ID: <1986@dlvax2.datlog.co.uk>
Date: 10 May 89 07:37:10 GMT
References: <147@ixi.UUCP> <1334@nusdhub.UUCP>
Reply-To: scm@datlog.co.uk ( Steve Mawer )
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In article <1334@nusdhub.UUCP> rwhite@nusdhub.UUCP (Robert C. White Jr.) writes:
>Where ever units of weight (not spesifically related to currency)
>are being discussed in the "english" system [i think that is the real
>name] the symbol "#" MEANS POUND!

But not, of course, in England.   Whose language is it anyway? :-)


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