On 28 January 2003 at 16:13, Pigeon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > misleading answer. Puzzles me a bit - I thought # was an American > symbol anyway - does it just have two American names, one of which is > better at crossing oceans? (Because "pound" is heavy, and sinks?)
I think the official name for it is 'the octothorpe'. Of course, the ascii program says: quail (fun)$ ./ascii '#' ASCII 2/3 is decimal 035, hex 23, octal 043, bits 00100011: prints as `#' Official name: Pound Other names: Number, Sharp, Crunch, Mesh, Hex, Hash, Flash, Grid, Octothorpe I think the two most common terms (at least in my neck of the woods) is "pound" and "hash" (favoring pound, it's more fun to pound stuff than hash it). ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Stephen W. Juranich [EMAIL PROTECTED] Electrical Engineering http://students.washington.edu/sjuranic University of Washington http://ssli.ee.washington.edu/ssli -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
