Does the '@' sign have a name other than the 'at' sign? For example, '&' is known as the 'ampersand'.

Answer 1

Ampersand, asterisk, tilde, comma, parentheses. Most of the commonly used symbols in the English language have particular names associated with them, so we can talk about them without having to say "you know, that squiggly symbol that kind of looks like the letter S." With the emergence of the Internet, and with it, the important role that the '@' sign plays in e-mail addresses, this once uncommon symbol now has a lot of people wondering what to call it.

Officially, this symbol is called commercial at. Unofficially, most people seem to refer to it as the at sign or just at. Recently, there has also been a movement to call it the atmark. There are also numerous nicknames for it, including snail, curl, strudel, whorl, and whirlpool.

Answer 2

Actually, more correctly that would be written as: char* name; that is, putting the asterisk after the type, rather than before the variable name. I don't know why the compiler allows you to do it any other way. It shouldn't, because only the above form accurately reflects the real meaning of the statement, which is 'declare a variable with name 'name' of type pointer to char'. A pointer is a variable intended to contain a memory address of some data formatted in the specified way (char, in this case). You can not only manipulate the value of the pointer itself, you can also manipulate the data in the corresponding memory location. The char* symbol means pointer to char, similarly int* would mean pointer to int, banana* would mean pointer to banana (assuming you have a structure definition called banana), and char** would mean pointer to pointer to int (yes, you can have pointers to pointers). You can see therefore why attaching the asterisk to the variable name instead of the type is confusing, because it really is part of the type (even though all pointers are the same size and have the same format). In this case, the variable is being set to point to an array of five characters (that is, 'adam\0', where the \0 escape sequence refers to a single null character) which exists in static memory.

Answer 3

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Does the '@' sign have a name other than the 'at' sign? For example, '&' is known as the 'ampersand'.

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I don't think it has a special name to it, other than "at". I'm actually surprised that there are people who have never heard of an ampresand! Geez, watch Wheel of Fortune every so often! LOL!

Answer 6

@ is called ' At the rate of' ! Normally used to denote interest rates.

Answer 7

Here @ the Cirlcle A Ranch, we just call it our brand. I don't rightly know

what the cows call it.

Answer 8

Usually just "at". It's also called the "ampersat" and "commercial at"

Answer 9

In Spanish you say "arroba", for instance in a telephone chat you say: charlie arroba yahoo punto com.Being punto = dot.

Answer 10

The @ is an email sign but i dont know the name for it