Number sign
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number-sign-190-941895
title:
Number sign
text:
The symbol # is known variously in English-speaking regions as the number sign, hash, or pound sign. The symbol has historically been used for a wide range of purposes including the designation of an ordinal number and as a ligatured abbreviation for pounds avoirdupois – having been derived from the now-rare ℔. Since 2007, widespread usage of the symbol to introduce metadata tags on social media platforms has led to such tags being known as "hashtags", and from that, the symbol itself is sometim
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wiki
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encyclopedia
description:
Typographic symbol (#)
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Number_sign
date created:
2001-12-01T19:19:29Z
date modified:
2024-09-09T14:05:06Z
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