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by layer8 514 days ago
Typographically the latter character is not a minus sign, it’s an ASCII hyphen-minus, which is usually designed to look more like a hyphen than a minus sign. An actual minus sign typically looks more like a dash than like a hyphen-minus.

- hyphen-minus

− minus sign (should have equal width to +)

– en dash