According to the Wikipedia article (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Number_sign) in North America referring to # as "pound sign" dates back to at least 1932 in published material which predates ASCII by almost 30 years. The Wikipedia article provides a citation for this but I am unable to verify it. But I will note that I first learned it as "pound sign" in the early '70s which I doubt had anything to do with computer standards.
On Tue, Jan 5, 2016 at 3:17 PM, J Martin Rushton <[email protected]> wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Just for the record: "£" is a pound sign, "#" is a hash. Calling the > hash sign a pound sign goes way back to the days of ASCII-7 and > national ASCII variants. The UK national variant had a pound sign > where plain ASCII had a hash. If anyone is _really_ interested, the £ > sign is a capital "L" (for libra, Latin for a pound) with a line > through it, a bit like dollars and letter "S". > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v2.0.22 (GNU/Linux) > > iQIcBAEBAgAGBQJWjE74AAoJEAF3yXsqtyBlVL4QAL/QEuFJTWMElZMCxJi0ui7N > CRE/mm3NjFh2CBeN7DWbO8wymTejqwRWNn1+gVuH+1epoG0obgNfAjfUgxZLL4yg > 6QWllqWOjqD33kZCKGCi8ZTPAGTgh1PZXmnOTBeFPQzETekTyYAhqbJwfbYl1KkT > 4CJzfhs2d4k/BrqEDMNrk1S3JTprnYbWuzUhcI6XswEuT1qtyh4OpK843WrhqeDh > AG6MZINYmtTGEMYuOsE+kOv9ffB1kJhvogf8ZJGxZrmlTnK/mX0ye8oUNXk38igK > ibTv1Yu4UEKhMz9i5hVUmUlP4Da4HGvlvbEgln361oSNa47chVpF5SrJ6C4c/uTO > jTtiYFO8tu2zZVPz+Ql0WJRKgcAgRKGyQOH5foc79mz9e/TG9UVB78DDuNN3neOU > PUz10drkgQdnSIbTvXmLbFk4G8s9Nfo3pBIEPM6SCBctlhRuyoQAddvI3l19bHoX > E4CCpdzHw+CzuMydZBJ2hb5POOXVp9TxfrQ0KNOccivQcqYLZQr/oCWqzXPZqep+ > J5Son7mC0OR4CAc340YUKcxvU1j78SzexDGpN3OcTVHMMU0Pjdab6ZUeGpxUWNh0 > NAMCIwosUvuLEjzakpvz+Xh75pQNDZqh8HA8r2yDgbxlc1IPUaUNxC3nBVAv7TTT > hSr1vXPbIX1WinSoEcYs > =5Aeh > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > _______________________________________________ > lilypond-user mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
