What data formats have negative numbers wrapped in parentheses?

["Costello, Roger L." <co...@mitre.org>]

Steve wrote this last week:

You'll sometimes see data formats that have negative numbers wrapped in parenthesis instead of prefixed with a minus sign.

Steve, can you identify the data format (or data formats) that do this, please?

/Roger

Re: What data formats have negative numbers wrapped in parentheses?

[Steve Lawrence <sl...@apache.org>]

I've don't know of any data formats specifically, but I believe it's
fairly common in financial/accounting data.

On 8/19/19 8:05 AM, Costello, Roger L. wrote:
> Steve wrote this last week:
> 
> You'll sometimes see data formats that have negative numbers wrapped in parenthesis instead of prefixed with a minus sign.
> 
> Steve, can you identify the data format (or data formats) that do this, please?
> 
> /Roger
>