Pound sign (was Re: the Telephone Test)
Stephen M. Dunn
stephen at ziebmef.uucp
Sun May 14 09:58:24 AEST 1989
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:
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Sorry, you're wrong on statement 1 and right on statement 2. Both of
the above symbols (BTW, congrats on managing to draw them in ASCII ... no
mean feat) _are_ pound signs, although a multitude of other names exist
for the first one.
Now that we've cleared that up, let's get back to discussing C rather
than discussing what we call the little glyphs we use to represent
information. If you want more information on such symbols, check out
your local library - I'm sure it will contain enough descriptions of
alphabets to satisfy most everybody.
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! Stephen M. Dunn stephen at ziebmef.UUCP ! DISCLAIMER: Who'd ever !
! Take off to the Great White North eh, ya hosehead ! claim such dumb ideas? !
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