Re: name of ascii symbol #
From Dave Bird---St Hippo of Augustine <Dev...@xemu.demon.co.uk>
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· 9 Jan 1998 00:00 · View full thread
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In article <34A...@ares.informatik.uni-ulm.de>, "D. Tyschler" <dty...@ares.informatik.uni-ulm.de> writes: > >I have a simple (and stupid sounding) question to you ascii-experts: > >How is ascii symbol '#' called in american english? Is it 'pound' or >'octothorpe' or 'gate' or 'stockade' or 'batten fence' or ... ? >Is there a common or hacker's abbreviation ? I beleive computer people call it "hash", US and UK. In America it has general use as "number": edition #1047 etc. In music it's called a "sharp", and that's how I think of it. Hash has nothing to do with hash short for hashish==cannabis, but at a guess might come from it being a crosshatched mark. The other meaning of make a hash, hash things up, is to mix and mash stuff together as in "corn beef hash" or (figuratively) make a mess of things. -- Dave[XEMU] ________________(....=^��^=______ ---<,,">
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