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From: dewar@merv.cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar)
Subject: Re: the term "pound sign" (was: help: character to integer)
Date: 1996/10/16
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Date: 1996-10-16T00:00:00+00:00
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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 ...