[Jchat] _ ~ -

[David Lambert]

- would have been a convenient choice for negative,
then _ could have been minus or additive inverse.
I seem to do a lot of conversions between systems and certainly haven't
learned to use the number formatting library code.
Oh well.  The convention was right for me back in the APL '70s.
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