John Hogg passed along the following item:


Since # is the MTS Command Prefix character, the MTS Community has a special fondness for the octothorpe (or pound-sign, number-sign, hash, sharp, ...) and I am happy to see it making a comeback.

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The audio response unit at the University of Michigan said "pound sign" when it came across the # character.

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Octothorpe, another name for the telephone handset symbol # in World Wide Words.

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From Wikipedia or Wiktionary: Octothorpe, Pound sign, and Number sign.

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Number sign is the preferred name in Unicode (U+0023), ASCII (35 or 0x23), and EBCDIC (123 or x'7B').

In HTML the character is represented using the character entities # and #.

In ASCII there is a footnote that says "In applications where there is no requirement for the symbol #, the symbol £ (Pounds Sterling) may be used in position 2/3".

In EBCDIC code x'7B" is defined as a "Data Processing National Use position" and as such the character displayed on printers and displays may differ from one language or one country to another.

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GQ Symbol of the Year: #

Hashtags on Twitter have changed the way we think, communicate, process information. # for president!

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#-sign in Oslo, Norway

And these photos have nothing to do with MTS or computing.  They were taken in Oslo Norway in 2011 when Jeff Ogden, Shifrah Nenner, Mike and Suzan Alexander, Kathy Wurster, and Andy Goodrich were on their way to a cruse in the Arctic.