From: dewar@merv.cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar)
Subject: Re: the term "pound sign" (was: help: character to integer)
Date: 1996/10/18
Date: 1996-10-18T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <dewar.845692481@merv> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 9610171618.AA08190@most
"So: Feldman's claim that physics teachers used '#' for "pounds" around 1960
is a dubious scrap of anecdotal evidence.
And: Webster's claim made in 1957 that '#' was used for "pounds" in commerce
and business is a dubious scrap of anecdotal evidence.
"
Well 1960 and 1957 is really too late to prove early use, since the
character sets including # and the stirling sign were already in use
at that time. We need something clearly pre-computer era to nail this
down.
Gosh, I hope everyone out thre in CLA-land knows how to kill threads in
their newsreader (this is not exactly CLA anymore, shall we wander the
thread elsewhere :-)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~1996-10-18 0:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1996-10-17 0:00 the term "pound sign" (was: help: character to integer) W. Wesley Groleau (Wes)
1996-10-18 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-10-21 0:00 ` the term "pound sign" (was: help: char David Kristola
1996-10-18 0:00 ` Robert Dewar [this message]
1996-10-18 0:00 ` the term "pound sign" (was: help: character to integer) Sandy McPherson
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
1996-10-17 0:00 John Walker
1996-10-15 0:00 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
1996-10-02 0:00 help: character to integer Richard A. O'Keefe
1996-10-02 0:00 ` George Haddad
1996-10-05 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-10-07 0:00 ` the term "pound sign" (was: help: character to integer) Adam Beneschan
1996-10-09 0:00 ` Michael Feldman
1996-10-09 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-10-09 0:00 ` Michael Feldman
1996-10-10 0:00 ` Richard Kenner
1996-10-10 0:00 ` Adam Beneschan
1996-10-11 0:00 ` Robert I. Eachus
1996-10-11 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
replies disabled
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox