Hi,

> 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.


Actually, the use of # as a “pound sign” goes back at least to 1850: 
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Number_sign>.

I prefer octothorpe, which is [as far as I can tell] completely unambiguous.

Cheers,
Kieren.
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