Editing Numero sign (section)

===Russian===
[[File:KB Russian.svg|thumb|Russian [[keyboard layout]] for [[Microsoft Windows|Windows]]. The {{char|№}} sign can be seen on the {{keypress|3}} key.]]
Although the letter {{angbr|[[N]]}} is not in the [[Russian alphabet|Cyrillic alphabet]], the numero sign {{char|№}} is typeset in Russian publishing, and is available on [[Russian alphabet#Keyboard layout|Russian computer and typewriter keyboards]].

The numero sign is very widely used in Russia and other [[post-Soviet states]] in many official and casual contexts. Examples include usage for law and other official documents numbering, names of institutions (hospitals, kindergartens, schools, libraries, organization departments and so on), numbering of periodical publications (such as newspapers and magazines), numbering of public transport routes, etc.

{{not a typo|"№ п/п"}} (''{{lang|ru|номер по порядку}}'', "sequential number") is universally used as a table header to denote a column containing the table row number.

The {{char|№}} sign is sometimes used in Russian [[medical prescription]]s (which according to the law must be written in [[Latin language]]<ref>[http://pravo.gov.ru/proxy/ips/?docbody=&nd=102554270 Order of the Ministry of Health of Russian Federation No. 4N], chapter I, article 17.</ref>) as an abbreviation for the Latin word ''numero'' to indicate the number of prescribed dosages (for example, tablets or capsules), and on the price tags in drugstores and pharmacy websites to indicate number of [[unit dose]]s in drug packages, although the standard abbreviation for use in prescriptions is the Latin {{char|N.}}