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Subject:Re: Technical name for the #? From:Katav <katav -at- YAHOO -dot- COM> Date:Wed, 2 Dec 1998 10:46:31 -0800
Don't the Brits also call / a 'hash'? Seems a coworker from Blighty
used to call the // in a URL a hash ... then there is the (US)
military which issues 'hash marks' for each 'n' years of service ...
the Navy's are gold colored if the sailor behaved :-].
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of consideration, for there is no person without his hour,
and no thing without its place'' {Ben Azzai [Avot 4:2]}
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