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From: derek@hsi.UUCP (Derek Lee-Wo)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Pound sign (was Re: the Telephone Test)
Message-ID: <430@hsi86.hsi.UUCP>
Date: 4 May 89 18:28:36 GMT
References: <630@marob.MASA.COM> <147@ixi.UUCP>
Reply-To: derek@hsi86.UUCP (Derek Lee-Wo)
Organization: Health Systems Intl., New Haven, CT
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In article <147@ixi.UUCP> clive@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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