pf » Octothorp
August 01, 2005
Octothorp
#The lid of my snapple tells me that an octothorp is another name for the pound / number / hash sign... the # symbol. Quite a familiar glyph for CF developers.
According to Octothorp press, the word is so obscure that it isn't even in the Oxford English Dictionary. Its also not currently found in the Wikipedia (or my spell checker).
I suppose the Octo prefix is because it has eight points.
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On 08/01/2005 at 11:23:09 AM MDT John Dowdell wrote:
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Cool word... I was surprised to hear that "@" is called "snail". More words like this...?
On 08/01/2005 at 11:24:58 AM MDT Pete Freitag wrote:
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snail - I like it!
On 09/21/2005 at 10:28:37 PM MDT ben wrote:
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Check here http://www.gc.maricopa.edu/business/sylvester/octothorp.htm
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