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The title on HN got mangled. It’s ~$40B (APPROXIMATELY $40B), not minus.


Yeah, from the title I thought they lost $40B in market cap due to the pivot.


Sure it's mangled, but it's clearly a dash (–) and not a minus (-).


It's an en dash which is supposed to denote ranges eg 2013–2024 basically meaning 'to' so it's still incorrect here even if it weren't extremely similar to - or negative and easy to confuse.


I think to 99+% of people that's not "clear".


Oh, but that is not a minus. That’s a hyphen-minus. A proper minus (−) is almost the same width as an en dash.


Is this sarcasm


I think just a dash.


Thread winner.


Typographically the latter character is not a minus sign, it’s an ASCII hyphen-minus, which is usually designed to look more like a hyphen than a minus sign. An actual minus sign typically looks more like a dash than like a hyphen-minus.

- hyphen-minus

− minus sign (should have equal width to +)

– en dash




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