Re: Technical name for the #?

Subject: Re: Technical name for the #?
From: Stan Xhiao <mrlukeplease -at- HOTMAIL -dot- COM>
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1998 06:54:40 PST

You called it--"octothorpe" is the formal name for this symbol
(Webster's 10th). It can be used to represent pounds, and the word
number. But not hash. ;)


>Can anyone tell me what the precise name for the # symbol is and it's
>most commonly used name? I have heard it called the pound, the hash,
>the number sign, and the octothorpe.
>



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