Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!mailrus!ames!killer!netsys!vector!nobody From: 8b@cup.portal.com Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Octothorpe Message-ID:Date: 26 Nov 88 17:52:20 GMT Sender: chip@vector.UUCP Lines: 8 Approved: telecom-request@vector.uucp X-Submissions-To: telecom@bu-cs.bu.edu X-Administrivia-To: telecom-request@vector.uucp X-TELECOM-Digest: volume 8, issue 187, message 1 But...a # doesn't have eight beams...only 4...two really if you define beam as being horizontal...just call it a pound sign... which, I suppose, refers to some typewriter which have the British pound sign over the 3...I just call it the number sign...I've also heard it referred to as a ticktacktoe... -8b@cup.portal.com