From: Al Christians <achrist@EASYSTREET.COM>
Subject: Pound Sign
Date: 1996/10/18
Date: 1996-10-18T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <32680412.439A@easystreet.com> (raw)
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I checked the 1964 edition of the CRC Standard Math Tables, and
found the pound sign in there as meaning pounds weight when it
follows the number and meaning number when it precedes it. This
was in the commercial mathematics abbreviations section. Surely
if it was in CRC by 1964, it was in commercial use for some time
before that. Can someone check an older copy and see how far
back this goes.
Al
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