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Subject:Re: Technical name for the #? From:Richard Mateosian <xrm -at- EMAIL -dot- MSN -dot- COM> Date:Tue, 1 Dec 1998 12:28:46 -0800
Is there anybody who wouldn't recognize a reference to # as a sharp
sign? That's what I called it for many years before I knew that
anyone calls it anything else! ...RM
Richard Mateosian <srm -at- cyberpass -dot- net> www.cyberpass.net/~srm/
Review Editor, IEEE Micro Berkeley, CA