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    <div class="moz-cite-prefix">No program should recognize U+2122
      (sic) for negation. However, they might accept U+2212... <br>
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    <div class="moz-cite-prefix">A./<br>
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    <div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 11/2/2022 6:46 PM, Tim Partridge via
      Unicode wrote:<br>
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        <span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;">According
          to Wikipedia, APL uses U+2122 for negation and subtraction.
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          href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/APL_syntax_and_symbols"
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          style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> It
          references </span><a
          href="https://www.math.uwaterloo.ca/~ljdickey/apl-rep/n1.html"
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            style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;">https://www.math.uwaterloo.ca/~ljdickey/apl-rep/n1.html</span></a><br>
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      <div><span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I
          suspect most programming languages follow the unification of
          hyphen and minus on typewriter keyboards which led to early
          character standards doing the same.</span></div>
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        <span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Also
          number formatting and parsing routines use the dual use
          character for negative numbers and tend not to recognise
          U+2122.</span><br>
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           Tim<br>
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      <div id="divRplyFwdMsg" dir="ltr"><font style="font-size:11pt"
          face="Calibri, sans-serif" color="#000000"><b>From:</b>
          Unicode <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:unicode-bounces@corp.unicode.org"><unicode-bounces@corp.unicode.org></a> on behalf of
          Andreas Prilop via Unicode <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:unicode@corp.unicode.org"><unicode@corp.unicode.org></a><br>
          <b>Sent:</b> 01 November 2022 13:19<br>
          <b>To:</b> <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:unicode@corp.unicode.org">unicode@corp.unicode.org</a>
          <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:unicode@corp.unicode.org"><unicode@corp.unicode.org></a><br>
          <b>Subject:</b> U+2212 Minus Sign in Computer Languages?</font>
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            <div class="PlainText">Is there any computer language that
              uses U+2212 as minus sign?<br>
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