Administered by the Community Associations Institute. The AMS designation is the second tier of the pyramid of professionalism for community association managers. It builds upon the CMCAâs fundamental knowledge with requirements for added education and verified experience in the field.
The use of the phrase pound sign to refer to this symbol is found from 1932 in U.S. usage. Before this time, and still outside the U.S., the term pound sign was used to refer to the pound currency symbol (Â£) or the pound weight symbol (lb). An alternative theory is that this name arose from the fact that character encodings used the same code for both the number sign and the British pound sign Â£.
The word pound comes from the Latin word pendere, meaning to weigh. The Latin word libra means scales, balances and it also describes a Roman unit of mass similar to a pâ¦ound. This is the origin of the abbreviation lb for the pound. Note also that lbs is incorrect for two reasons.