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It has several names, some confusing. The most common is probably 'hash'. In the US it is sometimes called the 'pound sign' and used as a symbol for pounds weight, but this confuses the British, for whom a pound sign is £. In music, of course, it is a 'sharp'. The picturesque name 'octothorpe' has also been introduced: it is said to have been invented by an employee of Bell Laboratories in the 1960s, in honour of the American athlete Jim Thorpe. In the large form in which it appears on modern telephones it is sometimes called 'square'. http://www.askoxford.com/asktheexperts/faq/aboutsymbols/hashsymbol?view=uk
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Can mean: Pounds, number, "hash" mark" # on a telephone, shift 3 on a computer keyboard. In music instead of flat it is used to denote a sharp like #G = G sharp. On MOST voice mails or answering machines, if you hit the # when listening to the message, it will often skip to the beep tone.
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you may use it as the OK button when entering the pin code on your mobile phone.
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I like how my telphone banking system is always asking for the pound sign when I punch in my account number. Just 1 out of about 1000 uses for pound.
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I call it "the number symbol" or "the pound sign" or "the tic-tac-toe thingy".
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