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hyphenated fraction

Posted By: Rosey on 2009-04-23
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Subject: hyphenated fraction

I just got a note from QA telling me that fractions are not hyphenated.   Should be 1 1/2 and not 1-1/2.   This just does not even look right to me!  Have I been doing this wrong for the past 12 years?


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