Re:Qualcomm to buy NXP for $38B in largest chip deal
by raziel2701 on Thursday October 27, 2016 @03:33PM
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Do you know what's the reasoning behind this convention? I had no idea too that percentages in parenthesis mean negative. It's a whole new world.
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Re:Qualcomm to buy NXP for $38B in largest chip deal
by roymurdock on Thursday October 27, 2016 @04:18PM
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Parentheses are easier to see than negative signs when scanning through large tables of numbers. Also, in the days when financial documents were transcribed or faxed, it was harder to lose a set of parentheses than a negative sign when sharing documents.