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From: MYERSTON@KL.SRI.COM (HECTOR MYERSTON)
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Subject: Octothorpe source
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Date: 21 Nov 88 17:19:28 GMT
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	All my Bell System references call # The Number Sign (or Pound).
The only times I see it called an Octothrope is in Northern Telecom Inc
publications talking about Digipulse Dialing, "their name" for DTMF.
	The Japanese routinely call it a "Sharp".  Obscure to me, logical
to the musically inclined.

+HECTOR+
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