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Subject:Re: QUESTION: number range with negatives From:"D. Margulis" <ampersandvirgule -at- WORLDNET -dot- ATT -dot- NET> Date:Tue, 27 Oct 1998 17:04:32 -0500
Use the word _to_. And if you anticipate that this situation will arise,
make it your standard style to use the word _to_. In a thread a few
weeks back I ran on about the usage of the en dash for ranges, but I was
trying to draw a distinction with the hyphen, not trying to suggest that
a dash is necessarily a better solution than a preposition.
HTH,
Dick
Kate Kane wrote:
>
> 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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