GNUCash
Clark Jones
jones@inficad.com
Mon, 10 Jul 2000 21:27:14 -0700
Hendrik Boom wrote:
>
> jones@inficad.com write:
> >
> > OK, my turn: Bob, do you know what an octothorpe is? :-)
> >
> > Clark
> >
>
> Isn't it the thing everyone calls the number sign or the hash mark on the
> 12-key touch-tone telephone keybiard?
>
> ########
>
> -- hendrik
Correct. The character that most computer keyboards these days have as
"shift 3", sometimes referred to as "pound sign" in the U.S. I've also
seen it called "dies" in French documentation. My preference, though,
is "octothorpe". (It's also sometimes spelled "octothorp".)
Clark
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