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Posted by LeopoldStotch on Jul-17-2005 03:15:

pound or sharp ?

when you see the symbol '#', what do you say ??

..

i was wondering that .. i was talking with the boss, and i was mentioning 'c "sharp"', but accidentally said 'c "pound"', because i visualize the language as 'c#', you know .. my boss looked confused, and i was confused ?? ...

i used to play the piano when i was younger, and i was taught #=sharp of course .. then when the evolution of cell phones came out, my brain got stuck on the word "pound" ..

so what do you say .. "sharp" or "pound" ??

oh yeah .. instead of saying "pound the a$s", can we say "# the ass" ??

Posted by Ibizadreamer AG on Jul-17-2005 03:16:

# de as.

Posted by Yan on Jul-17-2005 03:22:

Pound.

Actually, I call it the 'number sign'.

Posted by Nell on Jul-17-2005 03:24:

it's a hash last time i checked. how the hell does it mean pound?

Posted by Zenchowdah on Jul-17-2005 03:25:

quote:
Originally posted by Nell
it's a hash last time i checked. how the hell does it mean pound?

uh

'-' <--- thats a hash.

Posted by AlphaStarred on Jul-17-2005 03:25:

tic-tac-toe

Posted by wizniz on Jul-17-2005 03:27:

sharp

(see other thread by me lol)

Posted by Boomer187 on Jul-17-2005 03:28:

quote:
Originally posted by Nell
it's a hash last time i checked. how the hell does it mean pound?

....on phone....please press pound to hear more options.

so when referencing phones its pound..when in music its sharp....else its....eh, i dunno

Posted by Ang ' ela_ie on Jul-17-2005 03:29:

quote:
Originally posted by Zenchowdah
uh

'-' <--- thats a hash.

Thats a dash.

In the US:
# in regular type is always a pound, or a number sign, etc.

In music, however, its a sharp symbol.

Posted by Nell on Jul-17-2005 03:31:

in UK:

# = hash
� = pound (as in the currency, 'lbs' for the weight)

Posted by LeopoldStotch on Jul-17-2005 03:35:

yes .. i have heard # = hash .. so you're not the only person nell ..

but damn .. how can one symbol have so versions ?? .. oh the beauty of the english language.

Posted by AMFL on Jul-17-2005 04:24:

quote:
Originally posted by Yan
Actually, I call it the 'number sign'.

+1

Posted by kr00t0n on Jul-17-2005 04:39:

# = hash
#2 = number 2

Posted by LeopoldStotch on Jul-17-2005 06:23:

quote:
Originally posted by Nou
oh yea, its also a comment symbol

#comment yeaaaaa

// comment!!!

/* comment

kakaka

*/

hash makes me think of Perl Associative Arrays

hash also reminds me of tiger-tree hashing for indexing material for sorting.
and the # reminds me of the old days when a computer couldn't take more than 4 decimal places, so it put a # at the end ..

my story of nerdy boredom.

Posted by idoru on Jul-17-2005 07:08:

My mind naturally reads it as pound, unless I'm reading music, in which case it becomes sharp.

Posted by Psy-T on Jul-17-2005 07:39:

sharp

music > *

Posted by enferno on Jul-17-2005 07:53:

depends on the context in which it is used

when i'm doing music, which is often, i say sharp, because it refers to the pitch of the note

when i'm talking like, i donno number or some shit, i say number sign, cuz, well, it makes sence to me that way

and when i'm on the phone, i use pound