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From: bobduff@world.std.com (Robert A Duff)
Subject: Re: the term "pound sign" (was: help: character to integer)
Date: 1996/10/17
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Date: 1996-10-17T00:00:00+00:00
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In article <dewar.845471035@merv>, Robert Dewar <dewar@merv.cs.nyu.edu> wrote:
>Well I must say that at first it seemed quite credible that this was indeed
>an old term, but the failure of anyone to come up with other than the most
>dubious scraps of anecdotal evidence is puzzling ...

Computer science *rarely* involves anything more than anecdotal
evidence; we're used to that.  ;-)  FWIW, I remember one of my
gradeschool teachers talking about pound signs, and I'm sure she had no
computer-related background.  My piano teacher called it a sharp sign.
Sorry, no written references...

- Bob