| Common names for an octothorpe include number sign, hash, or pound. |
| This starts with an octothorpe and consists of 6 hex numbers. |
| The great punctuation comeback: on the rise of the octothorpe, alias the hash, the crunch, the hex, the flash, the grid. |
| Strings are enclosed in double quotation marks, numbers are not enclosed in anything, and dates and Boolean values are enclosed between octothorpe characters. |
| Five years ago, Twitter's users invented what's now known as the hashtag: a pithy phrase, preceded by that hungry octothorpe, used to either label or comment on the preceding tweet. |
