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Comment by schrodinger

11 hours ago

I do—all the time. Why not?

I also use en dashes when referring to number ranges, e.g., 1–9

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dboreham  10 hours ago

I didn't know these fancy dashes existed until I read Knuth's first book on typesetting. So probably 1984. Since then I've used them whenever appropriate.

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