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[personal profile] gfish
Friday, December 12th, 2008 12:03 am
If '#' is an octothorpe, does that mean '+' is a quadrothorpe? And is '-' a bithorpe or a unithorpe?
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[identity profile] ilmarinen.livejournal.com
Friday, December 12th, 2008 10:13 pm (UTC)
I don't get it. I think I'm OK with that.

-B.

[identity profile] gfish.livejournal.com
Friday, December 12th, 2008 10:15 pm (UTC)
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.
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