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	Plus and minus signs - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The plus (+) and minus (−) signs are used universally to represent the notions of positive and negative as well as the operations of addition and subtraction.
		Because of the special use of the minus sign in mathematics, written mathematics should avoid as much as possible hyphens and dashes that could be misread as minus signs.
		The Unicode minus sign is designed to be the same length and height as the plus and equals signs.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Minus_sign (790 words)

	SheerPower® 4GL A Guide to the SheerPower Language (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		The character position is used for the sign of the number.
		The character position is used to print the minus sign or space.
		The minus sign or space appears after the dollar sign and before the number.
	www.ttinet.com /doc/sp4gl/sheerpower_028.html (871 words)

	Plus-minus sign - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The plus-minus sign (±) is a mathematical symbol commonly used to indicate the precision of an approximation, or as a convenient shorthand for a quantity with two possible values.
		The rarer minus-or-plus sign (∓) is not generally found in legacy encodings and does not have a named HTML entity but is available in Unicode with codepoint
		In a pinch, a crude version of these symbols can also be formed by underlining/overlining a + sign ( + + ).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Plus-minus_sign (294 words)

	Plus and minus signs - TheBestLinks.com - Minus sign, ASCII, Logical disjunction, HTML, ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		The plus (+) and minus (−) signs are used universally to represent the operations of addition and subtraction, and have been extended to many other meanings, more or less analogous.
		The Egyptian hieroglyphic sign for addition, for example, resembled a pair of legs walking in the direction in which the text was written, with the reverse sign indicating subtraction.
		The earliest appearance of the modern signs seems to come from a book by Johannes Widman in 1489.
	www.thebestlinks.com /Minus_sign.html (497 words)

	minus - definition by dict.die.net
		Minus sign (Math.), the sign [-] denoting minus, or less, prefixed to negative quantities, or quantities to be subtracted.
		Formerly, according to Franklin's theory of a single electric fluid, negative electricity was supposed to be electricity in a degree below saturation, or the natural amount for a given body.
		Negative quantity (Alg.), a quantity preceded by the negative sign, or which stands in the relation indicated by this sign to some other quantity.
	dict.die.net /minus (343 words)

	Windows BBS - minus sign
		To Steve R Jones: The keys to refer to are hyphens, not minus signs.
		A hyphen is equivalent to a minus sign....
		If the problem is with printing a minus sign, such as in a Word document, and the hyphen is not close enough to what you want, you may wish to try changing your font, if not for the entire document, then at least for this one symbol.
	www.windowsbbs.com /showthread.php?t=42411 (842 words)

	Info Node: (texinfo)minus (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		In the fixed-width font used by Info, `@minus{}' is the same as a hyphen.
		You should not use `@minus{}' inside `@code' or `@example' because the width distinction is not made in the fixed-width font they use.
		When you use `@minus' to specify the mark beginning each entry in an itemized list, you do not need to type the braces (*note `@itemize': itemize.).
	lyre.mit.edu /cgi-bin/info2www?(texinfo)minus (79 words)

	Plus and minus signs (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		The plus (+) and minus (-) signs are used universally to represent the operations of addition and subtraction, and have been extended to many other meanings, more or less analogous.
		The earliest print appearance of the modern signs seems to come from a book on "Behende und hüpsche Rechenung auff allen Kauffmanschafft" or Mercantile Arithmetic by Johann Widman in 1489, used to indicate surpluses and deficits.
		Recorde wrote, There be other 2 signes in often use of which the first is made thus + and betokeneth more: the other is thus made - and betokeneth lesse.
	www.worldhistory.com /wiki/P/Plus-and-minus-signs.htm (614 words)

	Annoyances.org - Win Explorer Collapsing Folders Problem (Windows 98 Discussion Forum) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Let's say "C" and folder "Windows" has been expanded, and all of the "Windows" sub-folders appear, and there is a minus sign next to the name "Windows", and the sub-folder "System" is highlighted.
		Clicking on the minus sign next to the folder name "Windows" should cause all of the "Windows" sub-folders to collapse and the minus sign next to the "Windows" folder name should revert to a +, and the highlight move to the folder "Windows".
		THEN, they expand again, the + changes to a minus and the highlight moves back to the "System" name, then again moves back to and now stops at the "Windows" name, with the minus sign still there, and all of the "Windows" sub-folders still expanded.
	www.annoyances.org /exec/forum/win98/1076016828 (382 words)

	Move minus sign (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		SAP always stores negative numbers with the minus sign at the end of the value.
		This can cause problems when extracting out of SAP to external applications, for exampl excel expects the minus sign to be at the start of the value.
		Here is a simple bit of code to take the minus sign off the end and put it at the start.
	www.sapdevelopment.co.uk /tips/dataman/tips_minus.htm (113 words)

	Grade K: Modeling and Recording Subtraction: When Students Ask (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Discuss other signs or symbols, such as stop signs, traffic lights, and danger signs, which children instantly recognize and understand.
		Remind them that since the minus sign (–) means "subtract," the number you are subtracting from goes before the minus sign and the number being subtracted goes after the minus sign.
		Since the equals sign (=) tells you that two amounts are the same, you need to write the difference between the two groups after the equals sign.
	www.eduplace.com /math/mw/background/k/08/te_k_08_model_ask.html (342 words)

	Precedence and Prophylactic Parentheses
		The ambiguity arises because the short centered dash we call the minus sign is used for two purposes.
		The minus in front is not a unary minus attached to the ω.
		The unary minus and the exponentiation operator, , are assigned to the highest priority group but, because that group is evaluated right to left, the in -22 will be evaluated before the change of sign**.
	www.macnauchtan.com /pub/precedence.html (6095 words)

	HP OpenVMS systems documentation
		The trailing minus sign must be the last character in the format string.
		For fields with trailing minus signs, BASIC prints a minus sign after negative numbers as shown in Example 1, and a space after positive numbers as shown in Example 2.
		You must reserve a place for a minus sign to the left of the decimal point to display negative numbers in exponential format.
	h71000.www7.hp.com /doc/82final/5424/5424pro_022.html (2018 words)

	Symbols of Grouping (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		though there may be plus and minus signs between them.
		terms in parentheses, the group of terms remains unchanged if the sign preceding the parentheses is positive.
		a plus sign (understood) and the last two in parentheses preceded by a minus sign.
	www.tpub.com /math1/10b.htm (471 words)

	Math Forum - Ask Dr. Math (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		We usually use the plus-or-minus sign, with the plus on top, when we want to indicate that both signs are valid.
		The classic example is in the quadratic formula, where each choice of sign for the square root leads to a different root.
		This indicates that we choose either the top sign in both plases, or the bottom sign in both places.
	mathforum.org /library/drmath/view/61065.html (291 words)

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	Plus or Minus game
		Taking turns you and your computer place either plus or minus sign between any two successive numbers.
		If the latter is odd the result will be always odd regardless of the distribution of signs.
		Thus, the selection of signs really does not affect the parity of the result.
	www.cut-the-knot.org /SimpleGames/pm.shtml (206 words)

	SAMPLE: Using the REVERSE function
		Use the REVERSE / / function to 'flip' the value, making the minus sign, if / / present, the first character in the string.
		/ / / / If the extracted value is a minus sign, COMPRESS the minus / / sign from the character value and use the INPUT function / / with the W.D informat to convert the character value to / / numeric, and multiply the result by -1.
		/ / / / If the extracted character is not a minus sign, create the / / numeric variable by using the INPUT function with the W.D / / informat.
	ftp.sas.com /techsup/download/sample/datastep/reverse.html (246 words)

	Device Path Exerciser Commands
		For these parameters, the plus sign (+) and the minus sign (-) are valid, but Device Path Exerciser interprets them as / (enable the option).
		Specifies the minimum size, in bytes, of the input buffers that Device Path Exerciser passes to the driver in IOCTLs and FSCTLs.
		(The minus sign (-) prefix is not valid with il.)
	www.osronline.com /ddkx/ddtools/dc2_2rxv.htm (1723 words)

	Math Forum - Ask Dr. Math (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Date: 03/08/2002 at 17:59:07 From: Kim Subject: Algebra 1 (equations) What does this equation mean: y = + k - The - sign is directly under the + sign.
		Date: 03/09/2002 at 12:54:31 From: Doctor Ian Subject: Re: Algebra 1 (equations) Hi Kim, This is really shorthand for two separate equations: y = k y = -k It's a little like when you say 'Pat is at either McDonalds or Burger King'.
		In this case, we use the shorthand '+/-' ('plus or minus') to indicate the ambiguity: y=4 x=sqrt(y) = +/- 2 y=9 x=sqrt(y) = +/- 3 In lots of cases, we can simply ignore the negative value.
	mathforum.org /library/drmath/view/53312.html (289 words)

	SMM: Future Value in Excel (continued); Page 9-6, spreadsheet models
		In fv(rate,nper,pmt) the result has a sign opposite to the sign of pmt.
		In fv(rate,nper,,pv) the result has a sign opposite to the sign of pv.
		The sign flip is a choice made by the designers of Excel.
	www.chacocanyon.com /smm/sessions/session09/page06.shtml (389 words)

	MSN Encarta - Dictionary - minus
		He came minus his tools, so he couldn't do much work.
		If we take that away we're left with a minus.
		The power problem may prove to be a minus.
	encarta.msn.com /encnet/features/dictionary/DictionaryResults.aspx?refid=1861630344 (122 words)

	New Page 18
		Other words: Change the minus sign to plus sign.
		Change - sign to + sign and switch the sign of the following number
		Notice: 2 minus signs will make a positive sign.
	faculty.stcc.edu /zee/newpage119.htm (116 words)

	Balance of Payments: Setting out the Categories (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Plus and minus signs: This is a rich source of confusion.
		Trouble is, it's counterintuitive because the minus sign corresponds to a situation when reserves rise, and the plus sign corresponds to a situation when reserves fall.
		We're so used to thinking "plus sign good" that it's hard to wrap the brain around the fact that a big positive number in "changes in reserves" means your country is burning through its precious stash of reserve assets at an perilous rate.
	faculty.uwb.edu /danby/bls324/macro/categories.html (1954 words)

	MrExcel Message Board :: View topic - double minus sign in clever SUMPRODUCTS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		One of the, if not the, fastest and most efficient ways is to use two negation operators together, which changes the sign twice, resulting in a numeric value.
		If you go to the thread referred to by Paddy, and remove the double unary from the Sumproduct formula, the answer is 0 (zero).
		My understanding of the double unary is that the first “-” converts true/false to -1/0 (True = 1, false = 0) and the second “-” changes the sign to 1/0.
	www.mrexcel.com /board2/viewtopic.php?t=78532&highlight=coercion (456 words)

	Comp.compilers: Re: flex not matching minus sign more than once
		Re: flex not matching minus sign more than once
		Re: flex not matching minus sign more than once rkrayhawk@aol.com (2003-08-10)
		Your {SP} named pattern could match a minus sign, which is atleast
	compilers.iecc.com /comparch/article/03-08-041 (289 words)

	Annoyances.org - re: minus sign (Windows XP Discussion Forum) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Press the Alt key, then while holding it type 0150 on the numeric keypad to get what is called an "en" — You should also place spaces around operation signs to make the equation easier to read.
		Where on the keyboard is the minus sign
		Please do not plagiarize; redistributing these pages without permission is strictly prohibited.
	www.annoyances.org /exec/forum/winxp/1110467988 (274 words)

	XL: Minus Sign Appears Before Text in Custom Number Format
		In Microsoft Excel, when you create a custom number format that contains a text string, and you apply this format to a negative number, the text string may appear between the minus sign (-) and the number.
		To create a custom number format so that the minus sign for negative number appears directly before the number, you must include formatting specifically for negative numbers.
		The section of the format after the semicolon (;) places the minus sign to the right of the text string when the number is negative.
	support.microsoft.com /default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;Q214304 (171 words)

	Rule 3: One Minus Sign in a Simple Fractions: Problem 2
		One Minus Sign in a Simple Fraction: Problem 4
		If there is one minus sign in a simple fraction, the value of the fraction will be negative.
		It makes no difference where the minus sign is located; therefore
	www.sosmath.com /algebra/fraction/frac3/frac31/frac313/frac31304/frac31304.html (98 words)

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