GNUCash

Paul Tatham ptatham@freewwweb.com
Tue, 11 Jul 2000 20:53:14 -0500


On Mon, 10 Jul 2000, you wrote:
> 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
> -- 
I thought it was the same as a decathorpe, only smaller.

Paul Tatham  <ptatham@freewwweb.com>

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