Hi Folks,
I have heard that in some financial and/or accounting data formats negative numbers are wrapped in parenthesis instead of prefixed with a minus sign. For example, the following represents negative twelve:
(12)
Do you know what data formats use parentheses to indicate a negative value?
/Roger
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