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You mean the octothorpe character? [1] That symbol seems to go by a lot of names!

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Number_sign

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It's a "sharp", hence why #! is often called a "shebang". Tho' I call ! a "pling".

The sharp sign (♯) [1] is actually a different symbol than the number sign (#) [2].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sharp_%28music%29

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Number_sign

In Australia (or maybe it was just me?!) we called it "hash" not "sharp"... so #! was "hashbang". The beauty of this system is that #| is "hashpipe", so it _must_ be correct.

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