Re: fortran character set

Terence wrote:
On Aug 31, 8:50 am, dpb <n...@xxxxxxx> wrote:
I don't agree w/ that hypothesis at all -- not that it's at all
important, but I am old enough to know that most "Amurricuns" knew of
the British pound and the "bar-L" symbol and that the "#" was utilized
for many things in the US long before the advent of electronic data
processing, two of the most prevalent being "number" and "pound-weight".

As I noted earlier, I have handwritten grain receipts of grandfather's
from the 1910's and 1920's with test weights for wheat written w/ the
"#" symbol (60 lb is the official weight for a bushel of wheat -- price
is set by the bushel, but measured by weight for delivery, not volume,
hence the need for establishing test weights on a load by load basis
when delivered to grain elevator in town).

I don't disagree with the above, but the point was missed.
If you NEED to type about avoir-du-pois pounds or stirling pounds and
you look around your input device (I'm talking late 1940's), then you
as a member of a surviving developed nation, find the "#" symbol on
your post-Turin Atlas or Mercury Star device, and say "Ah-HA!". Of
COURSE we were WRITING about pounds before, but not typing them on
anything not entirely mechanical into something far less so.
...

Ah...I guess I did entirely, then--sorry...

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