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Subject: Re: Pound sign (was Re: the Telephone Test)
Summary: music
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Date: 5 May 89 21:58:10 GMT
References: <147@ixi.UUCP> <1558@cfa.cfa.harvard.EDU> <7104@bsu-cs.bsu.edu>
Reply-To: mcg@mipon2.UUCP (Steven McGeady)
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From: mcg@mipon2.intel.com (Steven McGeady)
Path: mipon2!mcg

In article <7104@bsu-cs.bsu.edu> dhesi@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