The # and its names
The # and its names
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Hi,
I started writing assembly programs for the intel 4004 in the seventies. One of the new characters that we used was the pound sign, hash, sharp, number sign, gridlet, "immediate" or what have you.
We needed a swedish name for it and since it looked very much like a square pile of battens arranged to dry outside a saw-mill - we simply called it a braedhoeg (brädhög, if your computer can reproduce umlauts). It was also sometimes referred to as a bradgard (brädgård). Both meaning pile of battens or batten-yard.
My question: What local names do you use? Is there a story behind that particular name? Have "bradgard" or "bradhog" caught on? I have been told so.
I started writing assembly programs for the intel 4004 in the seventies. One of the new characters that we used was the pound sign, hash, sharp, number sign, gridlet, "immediate" or what have you.
We needed a swedish name for it and since it looked very much like a square pile of battens arranged to dry outside a saw-mill - we simply called it a braedhoeg (brädhög, if your computer can reproduce umlauts). It was also sometimes referred to as a bradgard (brädgård). Both meaning pile of battens or batten-yard.
My question: What local names do you use? Is there a story behind that particular name? Have "bradgard" or "bradhog" caught on? I have been told so.
Gunnar Englund
www.gke.org





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What's wrong with "hash" ?
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The israelis call it sulamit, small ladder.
It indeed looks like a two-rung ladder. Would this hebrew word catch on ?
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On my phone, I think of it as "pound sign". On my computer keyboard, I think of it as "number sign". I'm not sure at all what I'd think if I just came along and saw one in isolation on a piece of paper or blackboard.
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Che Dio ce la mandi buona, o almeno ce la mandi- Massimiliano Eusebi
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but i do like the ozie "hash"
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On a related note, is the 'at' symbol (@) used in e-mail addresses actually called 'at' or is it just used to mean 'at'. If so, does it have a proper name? And how is it referred to in languages other than English?
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ASCII code 35, crosshatch, crunch, grid, hex, hash, octothorp, mesh, number sign, pigpen, pound, pound sign, scratchmark, sharp (music), splat, thud, thump, tictactoe.
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As for the @ character, I found:
About, account, ad, amphora, cinammon roll, cyclone, ape, arabesque, arroba, at, at key, atmark, at sign, cabbage, cat, cha-cha, commercial at, curl, curled a, each, elephant's trunk, fetch, glyph, horse, pig's tail, pretzel, puppy, rollmops herring, rose, schnabble, scroll, snail, strudel, twiddle, twist, vortex, whorl, whirlpool. And the list is incomplete.
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"If A equals success, then the formula is: A = X + Y + Z, X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut."
-- by Albert Einstein
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Now that is a perfect summing up if I have ever seen one! lol. Have a star.
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UNIX shell scrips start off with something called "whiz bang"...
#!/bin/sh
JHG
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Can anybody tell the difference in meanings between ~ and ≈ ?
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http://www.tipmaster.com/includes/charentities.cfm
Here is some related info from Mathworld:
http://mathworld.wolfram.com/Tilde.html
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http://mathworld.wolfram.com/OrderofMagnitude.html
http://mathworld.wolfram.com/AlmostInteger.html
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by combining the right ALT and the shift keys with the keyboard provides great flexibility to write in different languages without changing the basic english keyboard layout.
saludos.
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I'd call it the "deep breath" before the shriek.
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ie) HR PO 590R HEDT #65000 in two lifts.
is 65,000 Lbs split between two coils.
Without data, you're just another person with an opinion.
Hydroformer
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But, my original question was this: Is "bradhog" or "bradgard" known at all in your country?
Gunnar Englund
www.gke.org
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Good Luck
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Good Luck
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As a circle of light increases so does the circumference of darkness around it. - Albert Einstein
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A.
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a = 123.456789#
I think of it as having two, vertical slashes, or "double" slashes, to remember it as meaning double-precision floating-point, as against !, which means a single-precision floating-point number, as in:
a = 123.45!
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Pound is the English currency symbol which does not appear on my keyboard.
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BTW, like the Jabber handle a lot. Used to be mebmer of a happy little chat community with that name.
Gunnar Englund
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In MSWord you can use the AutoCorrect feature (Tools\AutoCorrect\) to automatically change, say "GBP", to "£". You just need to copy and paste the symbol from Character Map (Start\Programs\Accessories\System Tools\Character Map).
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Hg
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Hey, someone else asked this and made a really big answer:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Number_sign
Hg
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That closes the bag nicely. It more or less confirms what I thought when I started the thread. It even got that "brädgård" (which I think should be "brädhög") in the answer. Wikipedia is really something - almost as good as our little threads when we want to find out the real truth about something. I still think that our threads are better though - they are interactive in a way that no Wikipedia can be - even if edited daily.
Gunnar Englund
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