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Subject:Re: QUESTION: number range with negatives From:Mireille Payette <Mireille -dot- Payette -at- MEDISOLUTION -dot- COM> Date:Tue, 27 Oct 1998 11:50:52 -0500
Intervals are indicated with square brackets (opened or closed) :[-25, 25]
> > 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).
