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America, where "lb' or "lbs" is used.
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English words that are fingerspelled in their
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Americans might write "Symphony #5", British and Irish people usually write "Symphony No. 5".
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3322:"Pronunciation guide for Unix - Bash - SS64.com"
2992:"A Dictionary of Singlish and Singapore English"
2801:"Norstar Voice Mail 4.1 | Software Add-on Guide"
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3542:"HISOFT DEVPAC ZX Spectrum Programmer's Manual"
2688:. Carnegie Mellon University. August 29, 2014.
1332:is often used to introduce numbered list items.
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3404:https://www.w3.org/TR/html4/sgml/entities.html
2512:Duff, C. P.; Duff, W. H.; Duff, R. P. (1880).
2311:. W. W. Norton & Company. pp. 41–57.
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1173:in the Perl language structure article.
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577:# (U+0023)") and pronounced "C Sharp".
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1574:, and other computing applications
3727:. London: Routledge. p. 125.
3255:ECMA-334 C# language specification
3043:Hochhester, Sheldon (2006-09-29).
2846:from the original on July 21, 2010
2437:"The Ancient Roots of Punctuation"
2332:Piercy, Joseph (25 October 2013).
1403:is used for attributes such as in
1346:programming languages designed by
1237:or other resource to introduce a "
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3097:"The ASCII Character "Octatherp""
3024:from the original on 8 March 2016
2834:"On Language; Hit the Pound Sign"
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2746:"Facebook finally gets #hashtags"
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2643:Research Review. Navorsingsoorsig
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2340:. Michael OMara. pp. 84–85.
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3265:. December 2023. p. xxiii.
3152:from the original on 18 May 2016
3140:Quinion, Michael (19 May 2010).
3130:(Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2000)
3078:Ralph Carlsen, "What the ####?"
2711:Parker, Ashley (June 10, 2011).
2645:vols. 18–21, pp. 117, 259 (1968)
1612:The use of the hash symbol in a
1188:is used to start a preprocessor
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636:Names that may be seen include:
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2775:Barber, Katherine, ed. (2004).
2656:"Remington Standard typewriter"
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2518:. Harper and Brothers. p.
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1046:computational complexity theory
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3372:Fortunato, Joe (Jul 1, 2013).
3095:Douglas A. Kerr (2006-05-07).
2777:The Canadian Oxford dictionary
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3172:Elements of Typographic Style
2435:Houston, Keith (2013-09-06).
2338:Symbols: A Universal Language
2005:TAMIL TRADITIONAL NUMBER SIGN
1862:it is often at 0x7B or 0xEC.
1616:is a phenomenon conceived by
1433:character used to extend the
308:
286:
2714:"Twitter's Secret Handshake"
2602:Thurston, Ernest L. (1917).
2400:Keith Gordon Irwin (1967) .
2139:equal and parallel to symbol
1696:Algebraic notation for chess
1362:, being more intuitive than
1322:lightweight markup languages
252:The abbreviation written by
19:Not to be confused with the
3223:"A tour of the C# language"
3197:"U.S. Patent No. 3,920,926"
2961:"Using hashtags on Twitter"
2175:Knowledge (XXG):Number sign
2156:the Chinese character for "
1936:COMBINING NUMBER SIGN ABOVE
1677:is a reference to the root
1658:function, and similarly in
1543:and some other dialects of
1298:precedes the name of every
500:which, because of the "th"
478:Bell Telephone Laboratories
5154:
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3879:Unicode Character Database
3435:"CSS Syntax and Selectors"
3170:Bringhurst, "Octothorpe".
2487:Crittendon, S. W. (1853).
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2935:Oxford English Dictionary
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2376:The Britannica Dictionary
2273:Oxford English Dictionary
2251:Oxford English Dictionary
2229:Oxford English Dictionary
1883:attested names in Unicode
573:(U+0043) followed by the
3810:"Manuscript Preparation"
3186:, September 9, 1972, 90.
1991:KAITHI NUMBER SIGN ABOVE
1586:. This usage comes from
1035:constructive mathematics
3691:Carnie, Andrew (2006).
2614:business symbols pound.
2303:Houston, Keith (2013).
2058:pound (sterling) sign,
1719:: Technical writers in
1192:. Inside macros, after
962:{\displaystyle a\mid b}
883:are mutually distinct,
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4888: ‹ ›
4873: " "
4869: ' '
4865: “ ”
4861: ‘ ’
3464:"Introduction to HTML"
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1141:programming language,
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553:programming languages
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372:to callers instead of
283:Blickensderfer model 5
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5138:Typographical symbols
3780:"Proofreaders' Marks"
3348:"Google Ngram Viewer"
2632:. Gregg. p. 141.
2257:on December 31, 2017.
1964:FULLWIDTH NUMBER SIGN
1830:North American lists.
1739:dagger, double-dagger
1272:"Computing"
1169:. See the section on
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2467:"The Origins of £sd"
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4828:service mark symbol
4571:multiplication sign
4089: &
3846:"Scrabble Glossary"
3608:"Vocabulary/number"
3549:worldofspectrum.org
3298:. 2 February 2001.
3227:learn.microsoft.com
2904:. 6 February 2020.
2744:Warren, Christina.
2588:The British Printer
2025:is defined for the
1292:Internet Relay Chat
1239:fragment identifier
1082:, the symbol has a
765:{\displaystyle |S|}
599:On telephones, the
430:is "hash, bang" or
381:Pound sign or pound
5117:Korean punctuation
5107:Hebrew punctuation
3871:Unicode Consortium
3668:. The Halo Group.
3641:. ASL University.
3420:2017-08-05 at the
3409:2018-04-01 at the
3263:Ecma International
3184:The Calgary Herald
2990:Jack Tsen-Ta Lee.
2839:The New York Times
2832:(March 24, 1991).
2719:The New York Times
2042:US keyboard layout
2023:KEYCAP NUMBER SIGN
1976:KAITHI NUMBER SIGN
1905:ARABIC NUMBER SIGN
1559:assembly language.
1200:is used for token
1039:apartness relation
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3082:28 (1996): 52–53.
3018:"Address Formats"
2555:on Oct 14, 2021.
2473:on 8 March 2020.
2347:978-1-78243-073-5
2318:978-0-393-06442-1
2235:on April 3, 2018.
2181:Explanatory notes
2081:, on Mac OS with
1950:SMALL NUMBER SIGN
1921:TAMIL NUMBER SIGN
1813:proofreading mark
1545:assembly language
1532:is used with the
1429:is a dispatching
1058:counting problems
688:⟨£⟩
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670:⟨#⟩
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