minus sign
Noun
Meaning
a sign indicating the operation of subtraction
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A minus sign is used to indicate backwards movement.
ASCII does not have a minus sign, so its hyphen-minus character (code is 45 decimal or 2D hexadecimal) would be used.
East-West addresses in this area are denoted with a leading zero (instead of a minus sign).
If the character set has a minus sign, then that character should be used.
If the number is negative then a minus sign precedes m (as in ordinary decimal notation).
Negative numbers are usually written with a negative sign (a minus sign ).