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- From: gdb15@grebe.cl.cam.ac.uk (Guy Barry)
- Subject: Re: Symbol for pound sterling
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- Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 12:08:21 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan21.114132.2955@lsl.co.uk> snail@lsl.co.uk writes:
- >In article <727485345snz@home.demon.co.uk>, cms@home.demon.co.uk (Cliff Stanford) writes:
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- >> It is practically a standard to use '#' as a pound sign. Why not, indeed,
- >> as it is one of the few ascii characters that has no (other) meaning in
- >> English?
- >
- >Wrong. # means sharp in english musical notation.
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- Right, but there's no context in which they could be confused.
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