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As titled suggested , How would you call this symbol - ( Just comes inbetween 0 and = symbol on your keyboard) hyphen or minus or somethings like dash.
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- 11-25-2009 #1
Is this - a Hyphen or a Minus ?
As titled suggested , How would you call this symbol - ( Just comes inbetween 0 and = symbol on your keyboard) hyphen or minus or somethings like dash.
I prefer to call it as hyphen
though few of my friends call it as minus.
what about you?- Lakshmipathi.G
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- 11-25-2009 #2
I usually call it a hyphen when it's on it's own but I have been heard calling a minus and a dash depending on the context
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- 11-25-2009 #3
Hyphen, the minus sign is on the far right of the keyboard in the numeric keypad.
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- 11-25-2009 #4
Depends entirely on the context for me. In the context of an equation, it's a minus. In the context of, say, a phone or serial number it's a dash. In the context of a sentence it's a hyphen.
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- 11-25-2009 #5
In typesetting, the hyphen is said to be shorter than the minus.
A dash, on the other hand, is longer than the minus sign. It is often written as "--" (2 minus signs) when the character set doesn't support it or the writer is lazy.
Typesetting programs like LaTex and even most modern word processors recognize two consecutive - and merge them to one slightly longer one (less than two minuses in length).
LaTex translates the single "-" to the shorter one if found among text, but the larger variant if used in math mode.
EDIT:
Wow, the Wikipedia article on this is really verbose.
Dash - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
EDIT2:
It seems like the inventors supposed it to be really context-depending from the start
Hyphen-minus - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaLast edited by GNU-Fan; 11-25-2009 at 04:45 PM.
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- 11-25-2009 #6
Depends on whom I am talking to. Most of my client/users understand dash better and know what I am talking about. If I told them to use a hyphen they would surely ask what I am talking about and where it is located on he keyboard.
- 11-25-2009 #7
In an English sentence, it's a 'dash'.
In a string of numbers it's a minus or, if you're a kid, a 'take away'
Of course, if you're a proper geek, it's colloquially known as 0x2D...Linux user #126863 - see http://linuxcounter.net/
- 11-25-2009 #8forum.guy
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didn't vote...
I call it all of the above, depending on how it is being used.
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- 11-25-2009 #9
- 11-26-2009 #10
Ditto for me to TechieMoe's explanation.
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