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Re: Article scoring
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lugnet.admin.general
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Sun, 12 Mar 2000 22:06:32 GMT
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In lugnet.admin.general, Shiri Dori writes:
> > [-100,+100]
> > Advantages:
> > * Nice big integer domain with 201 possible values
> > * Midpoint is 0 (very cool)
> > * Good intuitive quick grokkage for integer math geeks
> > Disadvantages:
> > * -10 and -20 sound more demoralizing than 45 and 40
> > * Hyphen character for minus is hard to discern, especially when plus
> > is also used
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> Meaning...?
A typographically correct minus sign is 1 en wide, which is typically about
twice the width of a hyphen in most typefaces. HTML has the – entity
which is 1 en wide, and the — entity which is 1 em wide, but AFAIK these
aren't supported on all browsers, because they refer to specific positions in
fonts rather than being named entities such as © or ® or ½.
Thus, a hypen, when used as a minus sign, is much harder to see than a real
minus sign. The use of a plus sign for positive numbers (as opposed to not
showing any prefix on positive numbers) makes it especially difficult for the
eye to discern the minus sign when a hyphen is used.
HTH. :)
--Todd
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