Pound sign (was Re: the Telephone Test)

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From: mcg at mipon2.intel.com (Steven McGeady)
Path: mipon2!mcg

In article <7104 at bsu-cs.bsu.edu> dhesi at bsu-cs.bsu.edu (Rahul Dhesi) writes:
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>This is often mislabelled as "pound sign", "number sign", "crosshatch",
>"hash", etc.
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>The correct name for this figure is therefore ... the "tac".

Isn't there anyone other than me (and the other late-70's hackers at Reed)
who call the '#' a "sharp"?  This name is unique and has precedent and
broad acceptance in another field.

S. McGeady