That's a pretty specious argument.

In any event the name of # is of great debate. There are many terms (most listed in the two links I provided earlier (higher up, below.)

The Useless Pages used to have an entire section dedicated to this, I cannot find it now

Octothorpe

Despite the actual definition I had heard Sesquipedalian as a contender

Interesting observation

If - is a bithorpe and # is an octothorpe, why isn't * a hexathorpe? And if - is a bithorpe and = is a quadrathorpe, what's +? And furthermore, what's a thorpe?

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