You say pound sign, I say number sign, let's call the whole thing off.

[Gary D Duzan]

In article <10391 at orstcs.CS.ORST.EDU> ghe at nucthy.PHYSICS.ORST.EDU (Guangliang He) writes:
=>I have seen some place call '#' a sharp sign.

   That would probably be in something musical. It does, however, sometimes
creep into other stuff. I once saw something in a Calculus book that used
X# and Xb to specify something close to X but slightly higher/lower,
respectively (though I don't remember it that well.)

					Gary Duzan
					Time  Lord
				    Third Regeneration
				       Bass Vocalist




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