Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!rutgers!njin!princeton!njsmu!mccc!pjh From: pjh@mccc.UUCP (Pete Holsberg) Newsgroups: comp.lang.c Subject: Re: Pound sign (was Re: the Telephone Test) Message-ID: <706@mccc.UUCP> Date: 5 May 89 20:28:35 GMT References: <147@ixi.UUCP> <1558@cfa.cfa.harvard.EDU> <7104@bsu-cs.bsu.edu> Reply-To: pjh@mccc.UUCP (Pete Holsberg) Organization: The College On The Other Side of U. S. Route 1 Lines: 24 In article <7104@bsu-cs.bsu.edu> dhesi@bsu-cs.bsu.edu (Rahul Dhesi) writes: = = | | = --+--+-- = | | = --+--+-- = | | = =This is often mislabelled as "pound sign", "number sign", "crosshatch", ="hash", etc. = =The correct name for this figure is therefore the "tac sign" or just =the "tac". (Cobol programmers may prefer the full name "tic-tac-toe =sign.") = From the (universal) world of music comes the name "sharp" for the "#" symbol. sharp include ess tee dee eye oh dot aitch. Hmmmm. -- Pete Holsberg UUCP: {...!rutgers!}princeton!mccc!pjh Mercer College CompuServe: 70240,334 1200 Old Trenton Road GEnie: PJHOLSBERG Trenton, NJ 08690 Voice: 1-609-586-4800