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From: gis@datlog.co.uk ( Ian Stewartson )
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Re: Pound sign (was Re: the Telephone Test)
Message-ID: <2015@dlvax2.datlog.co.uk>
Date: 17 May 89 10:17:16 GMT
References: <30092@apple.Apple.COM> <4080002@hpopd.HP.COM> <27310@ism780c.isc.com>
Reply-To: gis@datlog.co.uk ( Ian Stewartson )
Organization: Data Logic Ltd, Queens House, Greenhill Way, Harrow, London.
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In article <27310@ism780c.isc.com> marv@ism780.UUCP (Marvin Rubenstein) writes:
>In article <4080002@hpopd.HP.COM> apm@hpopd.HP.COM (Andrew Merritt) writes:
>>  I thought the octothorp meant 'number' in US usage.
>I believe the word 'octothorp' never gained currency.  I could not find it
>in any of the four dictionaries that I looked in. (anyone have an OED handy?)

I had a look in the Shorter OED (and Ency. Britannia) which give no definition
for # (but then I could be looking in the wrong areas).  Pound is Sterling
when used with the scripted L character (with two horizontal lines).

In passing, I noticed that the SOED defines a dollar with two vertical lines
and not the single line on my keyboard.

I always thought it was hash include (or even just include).

Regards

Ian Stewartson
Data Logic Ltd.