"Ted Edwards" wrote in message
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Accountants somehow figure placing a number in parentheses makes it
easier to understand than preceding it with a minus sign. Bah!!
/rant


According to my late father, (an accountant) this was much easer to spot on
a ledger page than a minus sign.

--
Roger Shoaf
If you are not part of the solution, you are not dissolved in the solvent.