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- From: graham@bnr.co.uk (Graham Bardsley)
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- Subject: Re: Symbol for pound sterling
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- Date: 21 Jan 93 13:03:47 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan20.154710.19153@bristol.ac.uk> P.Smee@bristol.ac.uk (Paul Smee) writes:
- >The symbol '#' is actually USED in US English to mean 'pound(s)' in the
- >sense of weight -- e.g. 5# of sugar.
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- I havn't seen this way of writing weights, I've always written `lb' after the
- number. Anyway sugar is usually sold in 2lb 3.2oz bags these days.
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- Not yet got used to this metric business :-)
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- Graham
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