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From: apc@cbnews.ATT.COM (Alan P. Curtis)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Pound sign (was Re: the Telephone Test)
Message-ID: <6307@cbnews.ATT.COM>
Date: 5 May 89 20:09:11 GMT
References: <147@ixi.UUCP> <1558@cfa.cfa.harvard.EDU> <7104@bsu-cs.bsu.edu>
Reply-To: apc@cbnews.ATT.COM (Alan P. Curtis)
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In article <7104@bsu-cs.bsu.edu> dhesi@bsu-cs.bsu.edu (Rahul Dhesi) writes:
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}There is only one meaning for this figure that is universal the world
}over, and recognizable by every child.  This is the tic-tac-toe game,
}also called noughts and crosses.
}
}The correct name for this figure is therefore the "tac sign" or just
}the "tac".

Oh, but I know the game (as you mention) as noughts and crosses, so
your "proof" is defeated, by your proof...

apc
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Alan P. Curtis | AT&T Bell Labs | apc@cblpe.ATT.COM