[comp.dcom.telecom] Octothorpe

8b@cup.portal.com (11/27/88)

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