Pound sign (was Re: the Telephone Test)

[Derek Lee-Wo]

In article <147 at ixi.UUCP> clive at ukc.ac.uk (Clive) writes:
:The character that looks like:
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:is a "number" sign or a "hash" sign. It is NOT repeat NOT a pound sign.
:A pound sign is what appears on a five pound note, and looks like:

The real name of that symbol may not be 'pound', but you'd find most
programmers refer to it as pound.

After all, pound-include sounds better than number-include :-)


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