Tic-tac-toe. Still my favorite use of the pound sign.
And I still like “fetch” instead of “at”, “bang” instead of “exclamation point”, and “pipe” instead of “vertical slash”.
Now get off my lawn for real.
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This isn’t a banana
It’s really a Musa acuminata
Things may have common and academic names.
When I attended school, before writing was invented, # was the symbol for pounds (weight)*, not currency.
*Okay, mass, you pedants.
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Pound is a measure of weight, not mass,
Just as the weight of a one kilogram mass in earth’s gravitational field is 9.8 newtons or so, the weight of a 1 slug mass is about 32 pounds.
Techhnically a slug is defined as the mass that is accelerated by 1 ft/sec/sec when a force of one pound is exerted on it, while a newton is defined as the force required to accelerate a one kilogram mass by 1 meter/sec/sec.
This isn’t a banana
Correct. It’s an image of a banana.
When I attended school, before writing was invented, # was the symbol for pounds (weight)*, not currency.
I would rather have $s at my door than #ing at my door. Wouldn’t you?
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