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   From: hayesstw@telkomsa.net   
      
   On Sun, 16 Apr 2017 21:14:19 -0700, pyotr filipivich   
    wrote:   
      
   >Steve Hayes  on Sun, 16 Apr 2017 23:29:32 +0200   
   >typed in alt.comp.os.windows-xp  the following:   
   >>On Sun, 16 Apr 2017 13:11:08 -0700, pyotr filipivich   
   >> wrote:   
   >>   
   >>>Steve Hayes  on Sun, 16 Apr 2017 13:43:42 +0200   
   >>>typed in alt.comp.os.windows-xp  the following:   
   >>>>On Sat, 15 Apr 2017 12:55:15 -0400, nospam    
   >>>>wrote:   
   >>>>   
   >>>>>In article , Steve Hayes   
   >>>>> wrote:   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>>> >   
   >>>>>> >>  there was no hash key on the screen.   
   >>>>>> >   
   >>>>>> >"hash" = "pound" = "sharp" =  "octothorp" = "tic-tac-toe-board" =   
   "number".   
   >>>>>> >   
   >>>>>> >'Zat help :-) ? Cheers, -- tlvp   
   >>>>>>   
   >>>>>> There wasn't a pound (£) key either.   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>>the # key is normally called a pound key, less often the other listed   
   >>>>>names.   
   >>>>   
   >>>>£ is normally a "pound"   
   >>>># is a hash, or in certain constexts, a sharp. Calling it a "pound"   
   >>>>key is very abnormal.   
   >>>   
   >>>	OTOH, it is used as a sign for the weight in "lbs"  1kg = 2.2#  (I   
   >>>use that abbreviation a lot in notes to self)   
   >>   
   >>I certainly never have.   
   >>   
   >>I've used it to means "stream" in computer programming contexts, and   
   >>"sharp" in musical contexts, and "hash" or "hashtag" in general   
   >>computing contexts. I've never heard anyone call it a "poundtag" or an   
   >>"lbtag".   
   >   
   >	Pound sign - a hold over from the good old days before the metric   
   >system.  Which here in the States, everybody still thinks of as a   
   >French plot, a Communist plot, or a Canadian Thing.   
      
   We switched to the metric system in 1971, but even before that I   
   never, ever heard # referred to as a "pound sign". Back then the only   
   thing I knew it as was sharp.   
      
   It was only after the edvent of personal computers about 8-10 years   
   later that I heard it referred to as "hash".   
      
      
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