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How to Use Em Dashes (–), En Dashes (–), and Hyphens (-)
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27 Mar 25 20:19 UTC
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minus (US negative) enters the chat..
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The correct minus sign looks a lot clearer than a hyphen-minus when printing out negative numbers, especially at small font sizes. I have in the past written code to convert them.
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