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From: tjr@cbnewsc.ATT.COM (thomas.j.roberts)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: You say pound sign, I say number sign, let's call the whole thing off.
Message-ID: <686@cbnewsc.ATT.COM>
Date: 5 May 89 14:00:44 GMT
References: <10069@claris.com>
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories
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From article <10069@claris.com>, by krazy@claris.com (Jeff Erickson):
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>> is a "number" sign or a "hash" sign. It is NOT repeat NOT a pound sign.

Don't forget those people (often old-time telephony experts) who call this
character "octothorpe" (as on the lower-right corner of a touch-tone(R)
keypad)?

Tom Roberts
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