Re: When to Use Pound Signs

[David Bellows]

According to the Wikipedia article
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Number_sign) in North America referring
to # as "pound sign" dates back to at least 1932 in published material
which predates ASCII by almost 30 years. The Wikipedia article
provides a citation for this but I am unable to verify it. But I will
note that I first learned it as "pound sign" in the early '70s which I
doubt had anything to do with computer standards.



On Tue, Jan 5, 2016 at 3:17 PM, J Martin Rushton
<address@hidden> wrote:
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> Just for the record: "£" is a pound sign, "#" is a hash.  Calling the
> hash sign a pound sign goes way back to the days of ASCII-7 and
> national ASCII variants.  The UK national variant had a pound sign
> where plain ASCII had a hash.  If anyone is _really_ interested, the £
> sign is a capital "L" (for libra, Latin for a pound) with a line
> through it, a bit like dollars and letter "S".
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