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"Accordingly to the grammar dictionary, the number sign # in US English is used as an abbreviation of number, as #5 for number 5, it is know by pound sign or number sign.

However in British English it is called hash and that is the name given to the telephone key with that sign... hash key.

I did not find a specific meaning when used in front of a sentence, may be it was a typo.

Here is a link for more information:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Number_sign" 03:44pm Jul 4, 2020

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