Re: Slang for money [was: Re: Backup Consensus?]
On 28 January 2003 at 16:13,
Pigeon <jah.pigeon@ukonline.co.uk> wrote:
> misleading answer. Puzzles me a bit - I thought # was an American
> symbol anyway - does it just have two American names, one of which is
> better at crossing oceans? (Because "pound" is heavy, and sinks?)
I think the official name for it is 'the octothorpe'. Of course, the
ascii program says:
quail (fun)$ ./ascii '#'
ASCII 2/3 is decimal 035, hex 23, octal 043, bits 00100011: prints as `#'
Official name: Pound
Other names: Number, Sharp, Crunch, Mesh, Hex, Hash, Flash, Grid, Octothorpe
I think the two most common terms (at least in my neck of the woods) is
"pound" and "hash" (favoring pound, it's more fun to pound stuff than
hash it).
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