Plus and minus signs
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The plus sign and the minus sign are mathematical symbols used to denote positive and negative functions, respectively. In addition, the symbol + represents the operation of addition, which results in
From Johannes Widmann's book on "handy and pretty arithmetic for all merchants"
Dash
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The dash is a punctuation mark consisting of a long horizontal line. It is similar in appearance to the hyphen but is longer and sometimes higher from the baseline. The most common versions are the en
Plus and minus signs
…symbol (-) is the form of hyphen most commonly used in digital documents. On most keyboards, it is the only character that resembles a minus sign or a dash so it is also used for these. The name hyphen-minus derives from the original ASCII standard, where it was called hyphen–(minus). The character is…
1622 Okes-print of Othello, p. 19. Note use of dashes.