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How to Use Em Dashes (–), En Dashes (–), and Hyphens (-)

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650 points Stratoscope | 1 comments | 27 Mar 25 20:19 UTC | HN request time: 0.203s | source
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867-5309 ◴[27 Mar 25 21:23 UTC] No.43498346[source]▶
minus (US negative) enters the chat..
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1. perilunar ◴[28 Mar 25 05:50 UTC] No.43501963[source]▶
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.