Well that's typesetting terminology isn't it? Not sure that's really
applicable to this context?

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"E-Coder" wrote:

"en dash"

"Dave F" wrote:

Is there an official term for the double hyphen operator, -- ?

Double hyphen doesn't really sound informative. Double negation is not the
answer because -- does not make negative numbers positive.

So???

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