Re: QUESTION: number range with negatives

Subject: Re: QUESTION: number range with negatives
From: Douglas Vereschagin <Douglas_Vereschagin -at- SPECTRUMSIGNAL -dot- COM>
Date: Tue, 27 Oct 1998 08:27:58 -0800

How about putting each value in parenthesis, and separating with an em-dash,
for example?

(-20) - (-5) (where "-" is an em-dash)

Doug Vereschagin
Burnaby, BC, Canada
mailto:douglas_vereschagin -at- spectrumsignal -dot- com

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kate Kane [SMTP:KGKANE -at- ACCUSORT -dot- COM]
> Sent: Tuesday, October 27, 1998 3:09 AM
> To: TECHWR-L -at- LISTSERV -dot- OKSTATE -dot- EDU
> Subject: QUESTION: number range with negatives
>
> Hello -
> How do you write a range of numbers when the first number is
> negative? I tried hyphen, digit, space, endash, space, digit but it
> doesn't look right, and our style guide doesn't cover negative
> numbers (temperatures, in this case).
> Thanks for your help.
> Kate
>
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