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Subject:Re: Technical name for the #? From:"Parks, Beverly" <ParksB -at- EMH1 -dot- HQISEC -dot- ARMY -dot- MIL> Date:Mon, 23 Nov 1998 09:54:58 -0700
This question comes up regularly, so you'll find lots of answers in the
archive. What you use will depend on your usage. In telecommunications, it
is technically called an octothorpe (or so an engineer instructor told me in
a telecomm class long ago).
Number sign and pound sign seem more common.
How about checking some typing textbooks and see what it is called when
referring to that particular symbol on the keyboard?
Bev Parks
parksb -at- emh1 -dot- hqisec -dot- army -dot- mil
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> Subject: Technical name for the #?
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> 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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