• From: "Costello, Roger L." <costello@m...>
• To: "xml-dev@l..." <xml-dev@l...>
• Date: Mon, 19 Aug 2019 12:26:20 +0000

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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