From: eachus@spectre.mitre.org (Robert I. Eachus)
Subject: 1941 and still looking... (was Re: the term "pound sign")
Date: 1996/10/28
Date: 1996-10-28T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <EACHUS.96Oct28155705@spectre.mitre.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 326769AE.5C3E@cci.de
I haven't been able to pin a date on this usage yet, but I do have
a data point better than most of those posted. In "Mathematical
Tables from Handbook of Chemistry and Physics, Seventh Edition it says
on page 326; "# Number(if written before a numeral); pounds (weight),
lb. (if written after a numeral.)"
The copyrights are 1931, 1932, 1933, 1936, 1938, 1941. Since my
father bought this as a college student (he graduated in 1943) this
certainly puts the usage before any computer related usage. I think
my father still has the 5th edition around somewhere also. I'll keep
looking.
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Robert I. Eachus
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Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1996-10-15 0:00 the term "pound sign" (was: help: character to integer) W. Wesley Groleau (Wes)
1996-10-16 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-10-17 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1996-10-18 0:00 ` Andrew Lynch
1996-10-23 0:00 ` Richard A. O'Keefe
1996-10-27 0:00 ` @@ robin
1996-10-28 0:00 ` Robert I. Eachus [this message]
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