Octothorpe Software Corporation of Vancouver received a $369,159 contract for its Amadeus Decision System, a sophisticated yet easy-to-use solution that helps improve the effectiveness and efficiency of decision making.
To know the answer, let's study history a bit, beginning with the
octothorpe.
Houston (blogger, Edinburgh) combines an interesting history of punctuation marks, such as the pilcrow,
octothorpe, and ampersand, with setting them in their context, not only within the relatively small world of typesetting but in their overall milieu.
Houston has infused a seemingly mundane subject with considerable verve & erudition, inspiring us to pepper these pages with the en dash, em dash, pilcrow, interrobang, circumflex, manicule, virgule (aka solidus), guillemet, asterisk, dagger, double dagger, ellipsis, hedera (aka fleuron), ampersand, and
octothorpe (aka hashtag).
En ingLes se Le conoce como
octothorpe que, de acuerdo con eL Oxford English Dictionary, se acuno en Los BeLL TeLephone Laboratories, quienes crearon La cuadricuLa teLefonica de botones con eL sistema <<duaL-tone muLtifrequency>> o <<Touch-Tone>>, y que para 1964, agrego dos simboLos con otras funciones: * y #, <<star>> y <<octotherp>>.
The pound key (#) on the keyboard is called an
OCTOTHORPE.
Usually regarded as a sign for a number, the correct term for the # symbol is an
octothorpe.
An
octothorpe "#" indicates the attribute is a component of the primary identifier for the entity type, and an asterisk "*" means the attribute is mandatory.
