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Subject:Re: QUESTION: number range with negatives From:Bill Burns <BillDB -at- ILE -dot- COM> Date:Tue, 27 Oct 1998 09:49:06 -0700
Kate writes:
> 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).
>
>
Use the word "to" instead of a hyphen.
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Bill Burns
Senior Technical Writer/Technology Consultant
ILE Communications
billdb -at- ile -dot- com
