I was taught to type out degrees sm
Posted By: Another KSMT on 2007-08-02
In Reply to: how to type degree - Carla
Subject: I was taught to type out degrees sm
If it were a 30 degree angle or something, I would type it 30-degree. If it is 30 degrees, I would type it like that without the hyphen.
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