RE: When to Use Pound Signs

[Mark Stephen Mrotek]

What you term the pound sign, derives from the Latin libra, pound. The word was 
altered into livre, £ (1550's), as a French monetary amount equal to one pound 
of silver. The unit of measure was changed to the term franc. Today the same 
symbol is used as designation for the English pound - at one time worth one 
pound sterling.

Mark

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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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