Parentheses are easier to see than negative signs when scanning through large ta...

		roymurdock on Oct 27, 2016 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Qualcomm to buy NXP for $38B in largest chip deal 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.