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From: cramer@optilink.UUCP (Clayton Cramer)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Pound sign (was Re: the Telephone Test)
Message-ID: <1544@optilink.UUCP>
Date: 23 May 89 23:42:22 GMT
References: <30092@apple.Apple.COM> <4080002@hpopd.HP.COM> <27310@ism780c.isc.com> <2910@buengc.BU.EDU>
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In article <2910@buengc.BU.EDU>, bph@buengc.BU.EDU (Blair P. Houghton) writes:
> In article <2015@dlvax2.datlog.co.uk> gis@datlog.co.uk ( Ian Stewartson ) writes:
# #In passing, I noticed that the SOED defines a dollar with two vertical lines
# #and not the single line on my keyboard.
# 
# Look close at the old-style federal checks (is it on the new one), although
# my description should be enough:  that S// sort of $ is actually an S
# with a U drawn over it.  The rest is the history of degenerated graphics.
# 
# 				--Blair

When my father was in school 1916-1928, he was taught to write a 
dollar sign as "U" on top of "S".
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Clayton E. Cramer                   {pyramid,pixar,tekbspa}!optilink!cramer
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