What do Americans call this sign? #

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On Sunday, March 13, 2016 at 1:22:44 PM UTC-5, Mr Macaw wrote:
What do Americans call this sign? #

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Black holes are where god divided by zero.

number or pound sign depending on use...

On 3/13/2016 2:29 PM, bob_villain wrote:
On Sunday, March 13, 2016 at 1:22:44 PM UTC-5, Mr Macaw wrote:
What do Americans call this sign? #

--
Black holes are where god divided by zero.

number or pound sign depending on use...

also hash tag for the Twitterverse

On Sunday, March 13, 2016 at 1:31:30 PM UTC-5, Frank wrote:
On 3/13/2016 2:29 PM, bob_villain wrote:
On Sunday, March 13, 2016 at 1:22:44 PM UTC-5, Mr Macaw wrote:
What do Americans call this sign? #

--
Black holes are where god divided by zero.

number or pound sign depending on use...

also hash tag for the Twitterverse

Sorry...thought he wanted to know about the real world.

On 3/13/2016 2:35 PM, bob_villain wrote:
On Sunday, March 13, 2016 at 1:31:30 PM UTC-5, Frank wrote:
On 3/13/2016 2:29 PM, bob_villain wrote:
On Sunday, March 13, 2016 at 1:22:44 PM UTC-5, Mr Macaw wrote:
What do Americans call this sign? #

--
Black holes are where god divided by zero.

number or pound sign depending on use...

also hash tag for the Twitterverse

Sorry...thought he wanted to know about the real world.


We might live in the real world but may be a minority today.

On Sun, 13 Mar 2016 18:51:22 -0000, Frank "frank wrote:

On 3/13/2016 2:35 PM, bob_villain wrote:
On Sunday, March 13, 2016 at 1:31:30 PM UTC-5, Frank wrote:
On 3/13/2016 2:29 PM, bob_villain wrote:
On Sunday, March 13, 2016 at 1:22:44 PM UTC-5, Mr Macaw wrote:
What do Americans call this sign? #

--
Black holes are where god divided by zero.

number or pound sign depending on use...

also hash tag for the Twitterverse

Sorry...thought he wanted to know about the real world.

We might live in the real world but may be a minority today.

I just tried searching by # on facebook, and I guess it could be useful. But I don't see why there has to be a hash. Google can search the internet without search terms having to have a # on them. This seems a backwards step. I certainly can't be bothered selecting words that I feel are important every time I post to Facebook.

As for Twitter, that reminds me of using DOS. Where is the interface? It's just unconnected sentences from people with no threading or anything.

--
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On 3/13/2016 11:31 AM, Frank wrote:
On 3/13/2016 2:29 PM, bob_villain wrote:
On Sunday, March 13, 2016 at 1:22:44 PM UTC-5, Mr Macaw wrote:
What do Americans call this sign? #

--
Black holes are where god divided by zero.

number or pound sign depending on use...

also hash tag for the Twitterverse

octothorpe

On 3/13/2016 2:31 PM, Frank wrote:
On 3/13/2016 2:29 PM, bob_villain wrote:
On Sunday, March 13, 2016 at 1:22:44 PM UTC-5, Mr Macaw wrote:
What do Americans call this sign? #


number or pound sign depending on use...

also hash tag for the Twitterverse

I read some where it's called octothorpe.

In my youth, it was tic tac toe board.

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On Sun, 13 Mar 2016 20:37:01 -0000, Stormin Mormon wrote:

On 3/13/2016 2:31 PM, Frank wrote:
On 3/13/2016 2:29 PM, bob_villain wrote:
On Sunday, March 13, 2016 at 1:22:44 PM UTC-5, Mr Macaw wrote:
What do Americans call this sign? #


number or pound sign depending on use...

also hash tag for the Twitterverse

I read some where it's called octothorpe.

Something to do with a village?

In my youth, it was tic tac toe board.

Nought and crosses.

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On Sun, 13 Mar 2016 18:29:08 -0000, bob_villain wrote:

On Sunday, March 13, 2016 at 1:22:44 PM UTC-5, Mr Macaw wrote:
What do Americans call this sign? #

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Black holes are where god divided by zero.

number or pound sign depending on use...

It's a hash, or if you insist, number or octothorpe. It most definitely isn't a pound sign. That's a £. I should know, it's our unit of currency! We never buy something for #3.25!

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"Mr Macaw" wrote in message news On Sun, 13 Mar 2016 18:29:08 -0000, bob_villain
wrote:

On Sunday, March 13, 2016 at 1:22:44 PM UTC-5, Mr Macaw wrote:
What do Americans call this sign? #

--
Black holes are where god divided by zero.

number or pound sign depending on use...

It's a hash, or if you insist, number or octothorpe. It most definitely
isn't a pound sign. That's a £. I should know, it's our unit of currency!
We never buy something for #3.25!

----------

25# sack of potatoes.

On Sun, 13 Mar 2016 19:43:08 -0000, taxed and spent wrote:


"Mr Macaw" wrote in message news On Sun, 13 Mar 2016 18:29:08 -0000, bob_villain
wrote:

On Sunday, March 13, 2016 at 1:22:44 PM UTC-5, Mr Macaw wrote:
What do Americans call this sign? #

--
Black holes are where god divided by zero.

number or pound sign depending on use...

It's a hash, or if you insist, number or octothorpe. It most definitely
isn't a pound sign. That's a £. I should know, it's our unit of currency!
We never buy something for #3.25!

----------

25# sack of potatoes.

Oh that kind of pound, I forgot you still used old weights and measures. The correct symbol for that is "lb". 25# suggests the number of potatoes in the sack.

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On Sunday, March 13, 2016 at 2:49:35 PM UTC-5, Mr Macaw wrote:
On Sun, 13 Mar 2016 19:43:08 -0000, taxed and spent wrote:


"Mr Macaw" wrote in message news On Sun, 13 Mar 2016 18:29:08 -0000, bob_villain
wrote:

On Sunday, March 13, 2016 at 1:22:44 PM UTC-5, Mr Macaw wrote:
What do Americans call this sign? #

--
Black holes are where god divided by zero.

number or pound sign depending on use...

It's a hash, or if you insist, number or octothorpe. It most definitely
isn't a pound sign. That's a £. I should know, it's our unit of currency!
We never buy something for #3.25!

----------

25# sack of potatoes.

Oh that kind of pound, I forgot you still used old weights and measures. The correct symbol for that is "lb". 25# suggests the number of potatoes in the sack.

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Isn't it a bit unnerving that doctors call what they do "practice?"

Why do you try to pedal your idiocy to us...keep it over there and get off the ****ing soapbox! à²*︵à²*凸

"On 3/13/16 2:40 PM, Mr Macaw wrote:
On Sun, 13 Mar 2016 18:29:08 -0000, bob_villain
wrote:

On Sunday, March 13, 2016 at 1:22:44 PM UTC-5, Mr Macaw wrote:
What do Americans call this sign? #

--
Black holes are where god divided by zero.

number or pound sign depending on use...

It's a hash, or if you insist, number or octothorpe. It most
definitely isn't a pound sign. That's a £. I should know, it's our
unit of currency! We never buy something for #3.25!


You asked "What do *Americans* call this sign? #"
Americans in the former colonies do use # to indicate "pounds" for
weight, as in pounds and ounces.

On 3/13/2016 3:43 PM, Retired wrote:
"On 3/13/16 2:40 PM, Mr Macaw wrote:
It's a hash, or if you insist, number or octothorpe. It most
definitely isn't a pound sign. That's a £. I should know, it's our
unit of currency! We never buy something for #3.25!


You asked "What do *Americans* call this sign? #"
Americans in the former colonies do use # to indicate "pounds" for
weight, as in pounds and ounces.

After we drove King George out, we really #ed his ass?

A pint's a # the world around?

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On 3/13/2016 11:29 AM, bob_villain wrote:
On Sunday, March 13, 2016 at 1:22:44 PM UTC-5, Mr Macaw wrote:
What do Americans call this sign? #

--
Black holes are where god divided by zero.

number or pound sign depending on use...


To me it looks like a Mexican who got run over by a steam roller.

On 03/14/2016 09:19 AM, Colonel Edmund J. Burke wrote:

[snip]

To me it looks like a Mexican who got run over by a steam roller.

A tic-tac-toe game. Like the one in "Wargames" where the computer learns
it can't win (and then applies that knowledge to Global Thermonuclear
Warfare).

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"The government ought to stay out of the prayer business." -- Jimmy
Carter

Mark Lloyd writes:
On 03/14/2016 09:19 AM, Colonel Edmund J. Burke wrote:

[snip]

To me it looks like a Mexican who got run over by a steam roller.

It's known as an "octothorpe".

On 3/15/2016 6:47 AM, Scott Lurndal wrote:
Mark Lloyd writes:
On 03/14/2016 09:19 AM, Colonel Edmund J. Burke wrote:

[snip]

To me it looks like a Mexican who got run over by a steam roller.

It's known as an "octothorpe".


Cool! Thanks for that relevant info, which inspired this old Colonel to
look it up.................

"Octothorpe is just one of a plethora of names for the symbol. In the US
it's often called the pound key, because it has long been used to mark
numbers related to weight, or for similar reasons the number sign, which
is one of its internationally agreed names."

On 15/03/2016 13:47, Scott Lurndal wrote:
Mark Lloyd writes:
On 03/14/2016 09:19 AM, Colonel Edmund J. Burke wrote:

[snip]

To me it looks like a Mexican who got run over by a steam roller.

It's known as an "octothorpe".

Is that a deformed octopus?

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Mr Macaw wrote:
What do Americans call this sign? #

I am 100% an unemployable ****** who has not had a **** for years.
I'm a 42 year old failure with no future, no cash and no woman. I
stink and my council flat stinks.
I have a hand job over every reply I get.
Would you like to visit me and wank off my little dick?

On Sun, 13 Mar 2016 18:22:28 -0000
"Mr Macaw" wrote:

What do Americans call this sign? #


Pound sand up your ass.

On Sun, 13 Mar 2016 13:22:28 -0500, Mr Macaw wrote:

What do Americans call this sign? #

72# = 72 pounds.
#72 = number 72.
My dad used to refer to some distances as 40 or 80 rods.
We still use gallons, pints, quarts, fluid ounces etc.
Miles, yards, feets and inches.
A meter in my world measures electrical stuff.

Most of us might be crazy but it's the crazy people that
invent things.

"The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the
unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the
world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends
on the unreasonable man."

George Bernard Shaw.



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On Sun, 13 Mar 2016 20:33:58 -0000, Dean Hoffman wrote:

On Sun, 13 Mar 2016 13:22:28 -0500, Mr Macaw wrote:

What do Americans call this sign? #

72# = 72 pounds.
#72 = number 72.
My dad used to refer to some distances as 40 or 80 rods.
We still use gallons, pints, quarts, fluid ounces etc.
Miles, yards, feets and inches.

That must make school hell. We can change from one thing to another, like metres to kilometres simply by multiplying or dividing by 1000.

A meter in my world measures electrical stuff.

Meter, metre.

Most of us might be crazy but it's the crazy people that
invent things.

"The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the
unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the
world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends
on the unreasonable man."

George Bernard Shaw.

Wise words.

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On 3/13/2016 1:52 PM, Mr Macaw wrote:
On Sun, 13 Mar 2016 20:33:58 -0000, Dean Hoffman wrote:

On Sun, 13 Mar 2016 13:22:28 -0500, Mr Macaw wrote:

What do Americans call this sign? #

72# = 72 pounds.
#72 = number 72.
My dad used to refer to some distances as 40 or 80 rods.
We still use gallons, pints, quarts, fluid ounces etc.

Dash, pinch, tsp, tbsp, jigger, gill, etc.

Miles, yards, feets and inches.

That must make school hell.

Why? 2T = 1oz 2oz = "double" 2 doubles = gill 2 gills = cup
2 cups = pint, 2 pints = halfG, 2 halfG = G, etc.

But, most folks don't care. They buy things in a "familiar
size" and think of that thing *in* that familiar size.

E.g., flour comes in 5 lb sacks; sugar (recently) in 4 lb.
OJ comes in (nominally) 56 oz containers.

Do you buy your ketchup by the liter? (I suspect ketchup,
here, is sold in a dozen or more different "sizes")
What about your horseradish? And, are your spices sold
in 1g, 10g and 100g units? Never "3g" or "7g"?

We also don't need to drag out a *scale* to bake things
as we KNOW that chemistries tend to require common rations
(e.g., 2:1, 4:1, etc.) and can use volumetric measures
(instead of laddling ingredients onto a scale).

How big is an "egg"? Do you have metric dozens of eggs?
Do you have 100 minutes in your hours? 100 days in your years?

"That must make school HELL!" -- having to remember TWO different
schemes of measurement, one that deals with radix 10 and others
that deal with 12's, 24's, 60's, 365's, etc.

We can change from one thing to another, like
metres to kilometres simply by multiplying or dividing by 1000.

Really? How many stones in a kg? How many 0's in a Billion?

A meter in my world measures electrical stuff.

Meter, metre.

Most of us might be crazy but it's the crazy people that
invent things.

"The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the
unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the
world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends
on the unreasonable man."

George Bernard Shaw.

Wise words.

On Sun, 13 Mar 2016 21:33:57 -0000, Don Y wrote:

On 3/13/2016 1:52 PM, Mr Macaw wrote:
On Sun, 13 Mar 2016 20:33:58 -0000, Dean Hoffman wrote:

On Sun, 13 Mar 2016 13:22:28 -0500, Mr Macaw wrote:

What do Americans call this sign? #

72# = 72 pounds.
#72 = number 72.
My dad used to refer to some distances as 40 or 80 rods.
We still use gallons, pints, quarts, fluid ounces etc.

Dash, pinch, tsp, tbsp, jigger, gill, etc.

Miles, yards, feets and inches.

That must make school hell.

Why? 2T = 1oz 2oz = "double" 2 doubles = gill 2 gills = cup
2 cups = pint, 2 pints = halfG, 2 halfG = G, etc.

Way too complicated. Metric is made that way for a reason. You seem to have chosen things that have 2 of something else in them. That is hardly ever the case. Yards in a mile? Pounds in a stone?

But, most folks don't care. They buy things in a "familiar
size" and think of that thing *in* that familiar size.

E.g., flour comes in 5 lb sacks; sugar (recently) in 4 lb.
OJ comes in (nominally) 56 oz containers.

Easier when everything is in the same measure, either litres or kg.

Do you buy your ketchup by the liter? (I suspect ketchup,
here, is sold in a dozen or more different "sizes")
What about your horseradish? And, are your spices sold
in 1g, 10g and 100g units? Never "3g" or "7g"?

All sorts of sizes, but we know what a gram is. The UNIT is always the same.

We also don't need to drag out a *scale* to bake things
as we KNOW that chemistries tend to require common rations
(e.g., 2:1, 4:1, etc.) and can use volumetric measures
(instead of laddling ingredients onto a scale).

We can do that if we like. But a scale is easier to get that 4:1 ratio correct instead of guessing by how big the pile is.

How big is an "egg"? Do you have metric dozens of eggs?
Do you have 100 minutes in your hours? 100 days in your years?

It would be easier.

"That must make school HELL!" -- having to remember TWO different
schemes of measurement, one that deals with radix 10 and others
that deal with 12's, 24's, 60's, 365's, etc.

At least we made some of it easier.

We can change from one thing to another, like
metres to kilometres simply by multiplying or dividing by 1000.

Really? How many stones in a kg? How many 0's in a Billion?

Why would we use stones and kg?

A meter in my world measures electrical stuff.

Meter, metre.

Most of us might be crazy but it's the crazy people that
invent things.

"The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the
unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the
world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends
on the unreasonable man."

George Bernard Shaw.

Wise words.

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United 239: "Approach, I've always wanted to say this... I've got the little Fokker in sight."

On 3/13/2016 2:44 PM, Mr Macaw wrote:
On Sun, 13 Mar 2016 21:33:57 -0000, Don Y wrote:

On 3/13/2016 1:52 PM, Mr Macaw wrote:
On Sun, 13 Mar 2016 20:33:58 -0000, Dean Hoffman wrote:

On Sun, 13 Mar 2016 13:22:28 -0500, Mr Macaw wrote:

What do Americans call this sign? #

72# = 72 pounds.
#72 = number 72.
My dad used to refer to some distances as 40 or 80 rods.
We still use gallons, pints, quarts, fluid ounces etc.

Dash, pinch, tsp, tbsp, jigger, gill, etc.

Miles, yards, feets and inches.

That must make school hell.

Why? 2T = 1oz 2oz = "double" 2 doubles = gill 2 gills = cup
2 cups = pint, 2 pints = halfG, 2 halfG = G, etc.

Way too complicated. Metric is made that way for a reason. You seem to have
chosen things that have 2 of something else in them. That is hardly ever the
case. Yards in a mile? Pounds in a stone?

Do you really think people *care* how many yards are in a mile?
We buy *fabric* by the yard. We drive our cars *miles*.
The fact that they are related is a consequence of the fact that
they are both used to measure distances.

If you build a picket fence, are the slats 0.1 meters apart?
Are each of them 1.0 meters tall?

Why do you have all those pesky other integers between 1 and 10?
And, 10 and 100? Why not just label your "rulers" with a logarithmic
scale: it's either 1mm, 10mm, 100mm or 1m. Anything else must
make school HELL!

But, most folks don't care. They buy things in a "familiar
size" and think of that thing *in* that familiar size.

E.g., flour comes in 5 lb sacks; sugar (recently) in 4 lb.
OJ comes in (nominally) 56 oz containers.

Easier when everything is in the same measure, either litres or kg.

Why? If I tell someone I bought a "half gallon" of OJ, they
know exactly what I mean! They can visualize the size, shape
and weight of the container in their mind. The fact that it
*isn't* a "half gallon" isn't even important to them!

They buy a "sack of flour". Probably know that it is 5 pounds.
But, that's beside the point. Esp as flour tends to be consumed in
quantities of *cups*! Do you think people know how many cups
of flour are in a 5 pound sack? Do you think they care?
"I need to buy flour" or "I've got enough flour for this recipe"
That;s all it takes. We don't weigh the remaining flour and check to
see if it's enough for the next Rx we intend to make.

I guess our brains are capable of more complex assessments than
expecting everything to "end in zero"...

Do you buy your ketchup by the liter? (I suspect ketchup,
here, is sold in a dozen or more different "sizes")
What about your horseradish? And, are your spices sold
in 1g, 10g and 100g units? Never "3g" or "7g"?

All sorts of sizes, but we know what a gram is. The UNIT is always the same.

We also don't need to drag out a *scale* to bake things
as we KNOW that chemistries tend to require common rations
(e.g., 2:1, 4:1, etc.) and can use volumetric measures
(instead of laddling ingredients onto a scale).

We can do that if we like. But a scale is easier to get that 4:1 ratio correct
instead of guessing by how big the pile is.

How big is an "egg"? Do you have metric dozens of eggs?
Do you have 100 minutes in your hours? 100 days in your years?

It would be easier.

Metric chickens?

Do you even *know* that there is "no such thing" as a "large egg"?

How do you grade your fruit? Measure the circumference and
sort based on the nearest decimeter? Or, are "large oranges"
no more precious than "tiny oranges"??

"That must make school HELL!" -- having to remember TWO different
schemes of measurement, one that deals with radix 10 and others
that deal with 12's, 24's, 60's, 365's, etc.

At least we made some of it easier.

And, when you have a third person show up for dinner, do you scale the
recipe (that "feeds two") up by a factor of *10*?

I guess we have learned to use *all* the numbers, on this side of
the pond. Not just the "easy ones"!

On 03/13/2016 04:44 PM, Mr Macaw wrote:

[snip]

How big is an "egg"? Do you have metric dozens of eggs?
Do you have 100 minutes in your hours? 100 days in your years?

It would be easier.

"That must make school HELL!" -- having to remember TWO different
schemes of measurement, one that deals with radix 10 and others
that deal with 12's, 24's, 60's, 365's, etc.

At least we made some of it easier.

The basic unit of time is the second. For smaller amounts of time they
use metric prefixes.

I sometimes think of what it would like to use metric prefixes for
larger units, like kiloseconds.

After 86.4 kiloseconds you run into the day, a natural period of time
that doesn't fit into this metric stuff. Reality gets in the way.

How about forgetting about seconds, and use days. Then you have the
milliday, (which is still longer than a minute). A microday would be the
period of time we used to call 86.6ms (milliseconds).

BTW, in our system the average year is 365.2425 days long. Unexpectedly,
that IS a whole number of seconds. There are 31,556,736 seconds in the
average year. That's about 31.5 megaseconds per year.

1 gigasecond is approx. 31.69 years.
1 terasecond is approx. 31.69 millennia.

--
Mark Lloyd
http://notstupid.us/

"Most people are bothered by those passages of Scripture they do not
understand, but the passages that bother me are those I do understand."
-- Mark Twain

On 03/13/2016 12:22 PM, Mr Macaw wrote:
What do Americans call this sign? #

Octothorpe.

On Sun, 13 Mar 2016 21:32:58 -0000, rbowman wrote:

On 03/13/2016 12:22 PM, Mr Macaw wrote:
What do Americans call this sign? #

Octothorpe.

That's the official name, but I've never heard anyone actually use it in everyday language.

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On 03/13/2016 03:45 PM, Mr Macaw wrote:

That's the official name, but I've never heard anyone actually use it in
everyday language.

0x23 ascii. Programmers get a little strange in their everyday language.

On Mon, 14 Mar 2016 00:06:51 -0000, rbowman wrote:

On 03/13/2016 03:45 PM, Mr Macaw wrote:

That's the official name, but I've never heard anyone actually use it in
everyday language.

0x23 ascii. Programmers get a little strange in their everyday language.

The last four words in your sentence were unnecessary.

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On Sunday, March 13, 2016 at 7:25:52 PM UTC-5, Mr Macaw wrote:
On Mon, 14 Mar 2016 00:06:51 -0000, rbowman wrote:

On 03/13/2016 03:45 PM, Mr Macaw wrote:

That's the official name, but I've never heard anyone actually use it in
everyday language.

0x23 ascii. Programmers get a little strange in their everyday language.

The last four words in your sentence were unnecessary.


....your being here is unnecessary.

On 03/13/2016 07:06 PM, rbowman wrote:
On 03/13/2016 03:45 PM, Mr Macaw wrote:

That's the official name, but I've never heard anyone actually use it in
everyday language.

0x23 ascii. Programmers get a little strange in their everyday language.

I always preferred $23 (On the Commodore-64 hex was indicated by a
leading '$').

As to language, I was once looking at the source code for a program. One
of the error messages was "not enough memory to execute child". It made
perfect sense to me, just not anything like what it would mean to a
"normal" person.

--
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http://notstupid.us/

"Most people are bothered by those passages of Scripture they do not
understand, but the passages that bother me are those I do understand."
-- Mark Twain

On 3/13/2016 8:25 PM, Mark Lloyd wrote:
On 03/13/2016 07:06 PM, rbowman wrote:
On 03/13/2016 03:45 PM, Mr Macaw wrote:

That's the official name, but I've never heard anyone actually use it in
everyday language.

0x23 ascii. Programmers get a little strange in their everyday language.

I always preferred $23 (On the Commodore-64 hex was indicated by a leading '$').

Limbo uses the XrR notation (i.e., 23r16) as it allows any radix to be
indicated in a consistent syntax.

As to language, I was once looking at the source code for a program. One of the
error messages was "not enough memory to execute child". It made perfect sense
to me, just not anything like what it would mean to a "normal" person.

"Keyboard not found. Press F1 to continue."

"Bad magic"

"You can tune a filesystem, but you cant tuna fish"

The Amiga would often spit up diagnostic data prefaced with "Guru Meditation"

On Mon, 14 Mar 2016 03:25:46 -0000, Mark Lloyd wrote:

On 03/13/2016 07:06 PM, rbowman wrote:
On 03/13/2016 03:45 PM, Mr Macaw wrote:

That's the official name, but I've never heard anyone actually use it in
everyday language.

0x23 ascii. Programmers get a little strange in their everyday language.

I always preferred $23 (On the Commodore-64 hex was indicated by a
leading '$').

As to language, I was once looking at the source code for a program. One
of the error messages was "not enough memory to execute child". It made
perfect sense to me, just not anything like what it would mean to a
"normal" person.

Memory isn't needed to execute a child, you just need bleach or a knife.

--
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The OTHER thing a woman can put in her mouth to keep from becoming pregnant.

On 03/13/2016 04:45 PM, Mr Macaw wrote:
On Sun, 13 Mar 2016 21:32:58 -0000, rbowman wrote:

On 03/13/2016 12:22 PM, Mr Macaw wrote:
What do Americans call this sign? #

Octothorpe.

That's the official name, but I've never heard anyone actually use it in
everyday language.


I read that once, although never heard it anywhere. Also 'nanogram'. I
have usually (IIRC always) called # a number sign.

BTW, 1/60 of a second is called a third. IIRC, there was also 'solidus'
and 'virgule', names for a slash /.

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On Mon, 14 Mar 2016 02:48:18 -0000, Mark Lloyd wrote:

On 03/13/2016 04:45 PM, Mr Macaw wrote:
On Sun, 13 Mar 2016 21:32:58 -0000, rbowman wrote:

On 03/13/2016 12:22 PM, Mr Macaw wrote:
What do Americans call this sign? #

Octothorpe.

That's the official name, but I've never heard anyone actually use it in
everyday language.

I read that once, although never heard it anywhere. Also 'nanogram'. I
have usually (IIRC always) called # a number sign.

It's hash. Always has been, always will be.

BTW, 1/60 of a second is called a third.

WTF? Why?!?

IIRC, there was also 'solidus'

As in erection?

and 'virgule', names for a slash /.

No, a virgule is a comma. Like this: ,

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On 03/16/2016 05:05 PM, Mr Macaw wrote:

[snip]

BTW, 1/60 of a second is called a third.

WTF? Why?!?


Subdivision of the hour.

First is the minute (MI-NOOT).
Second is the second.
Third is the third.

Also, 1/18.2 of a second is a "tick" (not the parasitic animal kind).

IIRC, there was also 'solidus'

As in erection?


I don't know about that, but I remember a "South Park" where a man was
yelling about not having an erection. His kid hears this and goes to
church where he hears about a res-erection. He thinks he can get one and
give it to his dad.

and 'virgule', names for a slash /.

No, a virgule is a comma. Like this: ,


A comma is the deep sleep you fall into when you get hit on the head :-)



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On Sun, 13 Mar 2016 21:32:58 -0000, rbowman wrote:

On 03/13/2016 12:22 PM, Mr Macaw wrote:
What do Americans call this sign? #

Octothorpe.

And this one? €½

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