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- From: zzatsjl@uts.mcc.ac.uk (Janusz Lukasiak)
- Newsgroups: uk.misc
- Subject: Re: Symbol for pound sterling
- Message-ID: <6545@mccuts.uts.mcc.ac.uk>
- Date: 22 Jan 93 10:07:12 GMT
- References: <C15CLw.9zq@micrognosis.co.uk> <C174JH.Iq@exnet.co.uk>
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- In article <C174JH.Iq@exnet.co.uk> s0rah@exnet.co.uk (R A Hollands) writes:
- >In article <C15CLw.9zq@micrognosis.co.uk> jharuni@micrognosis.co.uk writes:
- >
- >What do you call "#"? In this thread it's been "hash", "hatch" and
- >"sharp". I've also seen "gate" (on instructions for Prestel).
- >
- >Best of all though is in the docs for PC AWK: there it's called "the
- >octothorp". My dictionary doesn't believe this and I'm not sure I do.
- >Anyone else heard it?
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- A friend of mine, who works on international standards of various sorts,
- mentioned this word once as an example of ISOspeak.
- Even he, paid for ISOising everything in sight,
- uses 'octothorp' only as a joke. BTW, his another favourite is that
- apparently, 'octets' are not necessarily of 8 bit length, so one can have
- 16-bit octets. Don't know whether he was serious ...
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