See also: Pound (currency). The pound, a unit of currency originated in England as the value of a pound mass of Silver.

The pound sign ("£" or "₤") is the symbol for the pound sterling – the currency of the United Kingdom (UK). 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Both symbols derive from librum, the basic Roman unit of weight, in turn derived from the Latin word for scales or balance. Latin ( lingua Latīna, laˈtiːna is an Italic language, historically spoken in Latium and Ancient Rome. A weighing scale (usually just "scale" in common usage except in Australian English where "scales" is more common is a Measuring instrument for The pound became a British unit of weight, and the pound currency unit was so named because it was originally the value of 1 pound Tower Weight (326 g) of fine (pure) silver. The pound or pound-mass (abbreviation lb, lbm, or sometimes in the United States #) is a unit of Mass Silver (ˈsɪlvɚ is a Chemical element with the symbol " Ag " (argentum from the Ancient Greek: ἀργήντος - argēntos gen Incidentally, the pre-decimalisation penny (of which 240 made £1) took the symbol d from the Latin word denarius, the Roman 'penny'. A penny (pl pence or pennies) is a Coin or a unit of Currency used in several English -speaking countries The Roman Currency system included the denarius (plural denarii) after 211 BC a small Silver coin,

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The symbol "₤" is also known as the lira sign. In Italy, prior to the adoption of the euro, the symbol was used as an alternative to the more usual L to indicate prices in lire (but always with double horizontal lines). Italy (Italia officially the Italian Republic, (Repubblica Italiana is located on the Italian Peninsula in Southern Europe, and on the two largest Please update other articles as well to avoid contradiction within Wikipedia e The lira (plural lire) was the Currency of Italy between 1861 and 2002 Other nations, such as Turkey and Syria continue to use the lira, and thus the lira sign, as denotation of their currency. Turkey (Türkiye known officially as the Republic of Turkey ( is a Eurasian Country that stretches Syria ( سوريّة or) officially the Syrian Arab Republic (Arabic ar الجمهورية العربية السورية

Computing

Codepoints

The symbol "£" has Unicode code point U+00A3 (inherited from Latin-1)[1]. In Computing, Unicode is an Industry standard allowing Computers to consistently represent and manipulate text expressed in most of the world's ISO 8859-1, more formally cited as ISO/IEC 8859-1 is part 1 of ISO/IEC 8859, a standard Character encoding of the Latin alphabet. It has a HTML entity reference of £ and has an XML decimal entity reference of £. HTML, an initialism of HyperText Markup Language, is the predominant Markup language for Web pages It provides a means to describe the structure

The symbol "₤" has Unicode code point U+20A4, decimal entity reference ₤.

Entry methods

Prior to the introduction of the IBM PC there was no unique accepted standard for entering, displaying, printing, or storing the £ sign in the UK computer industry. On personal computers prior to the PC the "#" key was often used; sometimes it was displayed on screen as "#", but many printers could be set up to print "£" where "#" was sent to the printer by an application program. Keying in, storing, displaying, and printing the sign often required special setup. The "#" sign is sometimes called "pound sign" in non-sterling countries.

The BBC Micro used a variant of ASCII that replaced the backtick ("`", character 96, hex 60) with the pound sign (ISO/IEC 8859 had not yet been standardised, and it was advantageous to have commonly-used characters avaiable in the lower, 7-bit ASCII table), denoted as CHR$96 or (hex) CHR$&60. American Standard Code for Information Interchange ( ASCII) Pitch The grave accent was first used in the polytonic orthography of Ancient Greek, where it occurred only on the last syllable of a word in cases where the ISO/IEC 8859 is a joint ISO and IEC standard for 8-bit Character encodings for use by computers Since the BBC Micro used a Teletext mode as standard, this means that the pound sign is in the 7-bit ASCII variant used on Teletext systems such as Ceefax, ORACLE and Teletext Ltd too. Teletext (or "broadcast Teletext" is a Television information retrieval service developed in the United Kingdom in the early Ceefax (phonetic for "See Facts" is the BBC 's Teletext information service ORACLE (from "Optional Reception of Announcements by Coded Line Electronics" was a commercial Teletext service first broadcast on ITV in 1974 Teletext Ltd is the provider of Teletext & Digital Interactive services for ITV, Channel 4 and Five in the United Kingdom.

The PC UK keyboard layout has the "£" symbol on the 3 number key, where an American keyboard has the number sign ("#"). QWERTY keyboardjpg|thumb|right|300px|QWERTY keyboard on a Laptop of 2007]]A keyboard layout is any specific mechanical, visual, or functional Number sign is a name for the symbol #; it is the preferred Unicode name for the Code point associated with that Glyph.

The symbol "£" is in the MacRoman character set and can be generated on most non-UK Mac OS keyboard layouts which do not have a dedicated key for it, typically through Option+3. Mac OS Roman is a Character encoding primarily used by Mac OS to represent text Mac OS is the trademarked name for a series of Graphical user interface -based Operating systems developed by Apple Inc The 'Option key' is a Modifier key present on Apple keyboards It is located between the Control key and Command key on a typical Mac keyboard Under Microsoft Windows it can be generated through the Alt keycodes 0163 and 156, and in MS-DOS by Alt-156. Microsoft Windows is a series of Software Operating systems and Graphical user interfaces produced by Microsoft. In PCs running the Microsoft Windows or DOS Operating systems additional characters to those available by the current Keyboard layout may be typed MS-DOS (short for M icro' s' oft D isk O perating S ystem is an Operating system commercialized by Microsoft.

The Compose key sequence is 'L' and '-'. On some Computer systems a compose key is a key which is designated to signal the Software to interpret the next keystrokes as a combination in order to produce a

See also

• Currency sign