up late writing a paper

[gfish]

If '#' is an octothorpe, does that mean '+' is a quadrothorpe? And is '-' a bithorpe or a unithorpe?

Comments

[peteralway.livejournal.com]

I suspect that the unithorpe is as elusive as the magnetic monopole.

[ashley-y.livejournal.com]

'-' is a bithorpe. ' ' is a unithorpe. But the way I see it, '#' is a nonathorpe.

[ashley-y.livejournal.com]

Alternatively, '#' is an octothorpe, '+' is a quadrathorpe, and '-' is a bithorpe. (And ' ' is a nonthorpe.)

[ashley-y.livejournal.com]

In the first scheme, '=' is a trithorpe, while in the second scheme, it's a quadrathorpe.

[vixyish.livejournal.com]

Could ' ' be an athorpe?

[encapsulate.livejournal.com]

A unithorpe would have to be a theoretical, like an isotropic antenna.

[neuro42.livejournal.com]

- is a bithrop. . is a monothorp. And a go board is a hexaseptuagothorpe.

[sistawendy.livejournal.com]

'.' would be a unithorpe.

[tithonium.livejournal.com]

# octo
‡ quad
† or + bi
- uni
. nil

[vixyish.livejournal.com]

I'm still confused. *what* is being counted?

[tithonium.livejournal.com]

Uh, hello? Thorps! Duh!

[tithonium.livejournal.com]

See below.

[tithonium.livejournal.com]

Sorry, let me amend that..
† would be a trithorp.

I'm counting "plus-building lines". so, octo has four pluses, each of two lines, octo. double dagger has two of two, quad. dagger has one plus and one line, tri. plus has two, bi. dash has one, uni. period has none, nilthorp.

[vixyish.livejournal.com]

That's the most reasonable answer I've seen yet!

[tithonium.livejournal.com]

The world is full of ridiculous answers to reasonable questions. I like to turn things around.

[orawnzva.livejournal.com]

This notion has even wider applicability than you might think. Go to any plumbing or hardware store, and you can find not only the familiar twobes ("tubes"), but all the fittings you might need to connect them, such as Y-shaped threebs and quadrathorpe-shaped fourbs.

[orawnzva.livejournal.com]

Also, remind me to post about '(the (grand scheme)) sometime...

[ilmarinen.livejournal.com]

I don't get it. I think I'm OK with that.

-B.

[gfish.livejournal.com]

Octothorpe is one of the sillier of the 10,000 different names for '#'. (Hash, pound, number, etc.) It comes from AT&T in the 1960s, and no one is really sure beyond that.