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On 05/01/16 23:42, David Bellows wrote: > 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. Interesting, but see also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pound. you'll note of course the irony that you are quoting a page entitled "Number sign" no doubt! > On Tue, Jan 5, 2016 at 3:17 PM, J Martin Rushton > <martinrushto...@btinternet.com> wrote: 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". >> >> _______________________________________________ lilypond-user >> mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org >> https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user > > _______________________________________________ lilypond-user > mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org > https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.22 (GNU/Linux) iQIcBAEBAgAGBQJWjFnqAAoJEAF3yXsqtyBlkDMP/A5saRiTzb+03tA5SX7peJQi e7lBhDDP8v2vcZEYPIl3B3Zj7BAcvaqSFPvLqdF90OB1YM2HXCkvXisQdIWZuuFO vciyDf2oO98EMP+MJqEmki+3FN3xv+AWGtcsgx10La4tM3DwMBFZb6iMuFMo0OUz wj0JDVWDqUc0bNIN+2otJSFqG6m09b190aUr8E6kRBePNpJnRkKr7B42JnzhasBu gfJrEtiGyl1WCSdqsSdTEILsuGUxbSDGiQrGewHZpy3FXewLdyHSgEsX8fwNtkSZ ks60fcZvvYTTpg9MYJViCwhdPP6ZB9Z8Hv3kyn7ASuFKIp+ImL0zezqbz6KfjmgE sKZNUaoQaCxZgxIQ52DJw3m+64uSTnL109+Aw5bkdxWI9PJofzrvzA3B+/5/+g7b nP8kynpHSJvPjxDHGbcwMtUM3ZUiTOQcNXe8rYITQ96RFLaLfFjIAPC+FrQ/oibr ufxGqrydiyCxDwHU+7d5rrCoh+N6puekKm9t7b4LpyMGViT9N/7ZfUb/AnUhPEDz J5/bv5TwT4NIMaiCE1bOd9jvms2sxqKswhCq/X1Sffbv8OOLPZm8sjWOjT2ph11s D9s5COJolKvuKx3Gp0dmKJ1sIL0kswDbMu0qjWEdixt24zfr8po25CnsJ5+x2jNT L4LWLXmpcLH+w8bkA1eP =DGby -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
