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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?
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> From: Kate Kane [SMTP:KGKANE -at- ACCUSORT -dot- COM]
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> Subject: QUESTION: number range with negatives
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> 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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