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From: gdtltr@vax1.acs.udel.EDU (Gary D Duzan)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: You say pound sign, I say number sign, let's call the whole thing off.
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Date: 5 May 89 06:54:16 GMT
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In article <10391@orstcs.CS.ORST.EDU> ghe@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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