Pound sign (was Re: the Telephone Test)

[Andrew Merritt]

/ hpopd:comp.lang.c / desnoyer at Apple.COM (Peter Desnoyers) /  5:22 pm  May  4, 1989 /
>>In article <147 at ixi.UUCP> clive at ukc.ac.uk (Clive) writes:
>>The character that looks like: [...]
>>is a "number" sign or a "hash" sign. It is NOT repeat NOT a pound sign.

>The UK has now been metric long enough that some of its citizens have
>forgotten that there are two types of "pounds" - sterling and
>avoirdupois.
Not true: the pound weight is in common daily use in the UK.  We just don't use
the octothorp character to denote it.  The common denotation of a pound weight
is 'lb' as in 2lb for 2 pounds.  I thought the octothorp meant 'number' in US
usage.

Andrew