Path: utzoo!attcan!ncrcan!ziebmef!stephen
From: stephen@ziebmef.uucp (Stephen M. Dunn)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Pound sign (was Re: the Telephone Test)
Summary: who's educating people these days?
Keywords: pound sign confusion must end
Message-ID: <1989May13.195825.12366@ziebmef.uucp>
Date: 13 May 89 23:58:24 GMT
References: <630@marob.MASA.COM> <147@ixi.UUCP>
Reply-To: stephen@ziebmef.UUCP (Stephen M. Dunn)
Organization: Ziebmef Public Access Unix, Toronto, Ontario
Lines: 32

In article <147@ixi.UUCP> clive@ukc.ac.uk (Clive) writes:
 The character that looks like:
   |  |
 --+--+--
   |  |
 --+--+--
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 is a "number" sign or a "hash" sign. It is NOT repeat NOT a pound sign.
 A pound sign is what appears on a five pound note, and looks like:
        --
       /
   ---+---
   ---+---
     /
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   Sorry, you're wrong on statement 1 and right on statement 2.  Both of
the above symbols (BTW, congrats on managing to draw them in ASCII ... no
mean feat) _are_ pound signs, although a multitude of other names exist
for the first one.

   Now that we've cleared that up, let's get back to discussing C rather
than discussing what we call the little glyphs we use to represent
information.  If you want more information on such symbols, check out
your local library - I'm sure it will contain enough descriptions of
alphabets to satisfy most everybody.
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! Stephen M. Dunn              stephen@ziebmef.UUCP ! DISCLAIMER:  Who'd ever !
! Take off to the Great White North eh, ya hosehead ! claim such dumb ideas?  !
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