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[Ray Heindl]

Evan Kirshenbaum <kirshenbaum@hpl.hp.com> wrote:

[Richard Maurer]

Evan Kirshenbaum wrote (about commercial property):
On "for lease" and "for sale" signs around here,
a common symbol for "square feet" is a square
with a single vertical tick mark (the "foot" symbol)
crossing the upper side. I don't think I've ever
seen this other than on a sign.



I think that this became common perhaps 30 years ago.
Before that, I believe, there was a stranger convention --
something like
20,00 sq '

The new symbol is an improvement, if we
remember that the tick is the old 'foot' symbol.

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