[Tutor] what does the "@" operator mean?

[Alan Gauld]

"Paul McGuire" <ptmcg at austin.rr.com> wrote

> and "#" as the "Number sign", although all of us have probably
> been instructed by voice mail menus to press the "pound key"
> when they mean this sign.

In the UK its usually referred to as hash or square.
When tone dial phones were first introduced in the UK in the late 70's
the official documentation nearly always referred to it as square, but
nowadays hash seems much more common.

( I was recently on an IVR where it started out using hash but then
switched to square for a few options then back to hash again. I 
suspect
I found a route to a relic from the past :-)

Alan G.