Turing Test
 

We have a winner. I wonder if the the gap between human and artificial is closing from both directions?

Interesting idea. I know people who use the pound sign in written communication and call it a hash tag. Damn cyborgs.

Come to think of it, methinks you've nailed it.:thumb:

The character the computer was playing was a child who did not speak the language natively, explaining gaps in knowledge and unnatural grammar.

Way back in the dark ages when computers were dinosaur-powered and I was doing my bachelor's in the UK in Math and Computer Science, we called this : # Hash of the Hash Symbol (not Hashtag). I only ever heard it called Pound when I moved to the US. Of course the pound is the currency in the UK so a pound sign is something entirely different.

In school, it was called the number symbol, then in life I learned it was called a pound sign. Now somebody has decided it should be called a hashtag.

I learned pound sign, then octothorpe. I have never heard anyone else use octothorpe colloquially.

Wow, yeah. I'd completely forgotten about Octothorpe. I think as soon as my math teacher said it wouldn't be on the test. :haha:

LOL!

Ok that font of all knowledge Wickedpedia says you guys are the only ones who call it 'pound" ;)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Number_sign

Well yeah, who else matters? :p:

we always said the tic-tac-toe sign

It's only a pound sign when you're pressing buttons for phone prompts.

Because when confronted by 10 different single digit numbers, it would be far too confusing to call it a number sign.

Callers to Directory Assistance in 1970s Los Angles learned of another key only available on newer telephones.