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Octothorpe
Hotspring(Quite all wet, you know) Started conversation Sep 18, 2000
I would like to suggest that the word 'Octothorpe' be considered. It is the recognised name for the # symbol in math circles. An apocryphal reference to the name having been made up by a Bell System engineer in the US may be foun in some of the research also.
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