Definition of Octotharpe
- Thought to look like a group of eight fields surrounding a village (Norwegian thorpe) ; or
- Named for octal + James Edward Oglethorpe ); or
- The Pasadena Star-News reported October 20, 1981, p. A-3, "According to the folks at Bell Laboratories in New Jersey, a rumor started in the 1960s or earlier ... that this symbol is called an octothorpe. One story has it that the rumor was started ... by one Charles B. Octothorpe." In another Star-News article on November 3, 1982, p. B-4, the word is written without the final e and refers to John B. Octothorp.
- The name for the # symbol. (Rare - because very few people know this term.)
- The Nuttall Encyclopedia
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