diff --git a/bstring/bstrlib.h b/bstring/bstrlib.h
index 89491c3..98c283a 100644
--- a/bstring/bstrlib.h
+++ b/bstring/bstrlib.h
@@ -94,7 +94,7 @@ struct tagbstring {
  * Take a standard C library style '\0' terminated char buffer and generate
  * a bstring with the same contents as the char buffer.
  *
- * If an error occurs #NULL is returned.
+ * If an error occurs NULL is returned.
  *
  * \code
  * bstring b = bfromcstr("Hello");
diff --git a/doc/comparisons.md b/doc/comparisons.md
index 43749b6..dd6c225 100644
--- a/doc/comparisons.md
+++ b/doc/comparisons.md
@@ -362,7 +362,7 @@ networking/realtime programming. It can be found [online](http://www.and.org/vst
    thread safe.
 
 The implementation has an extreme emphasis on performance for nontrivial
-actions (adds, inserts and deletes are all constant or roughly O(#operations)
+actions (adds, inserts and deletes are all constant or roughly O(\#operations)
 time) following the "zero copy" principle. This trades off performance of
 trivial functions (character access, char buffer access/coersion, alias
 detection) which becomes significantly slower, as well as incremental