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07/10/2014 04:16:42
 
 
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06/10/2014 23:27:20
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Technical writing
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01608877
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>>Hi everybody,
>>
>>I have the following error message text:
>>
>>"Credit Limit must be a number greater or equal than 0" (this error message is shown in angularJs web form).
>>
>>I am a bit concerned about than 0 part. If there would not be 'equal' part, then 'than' sounds OK. But with added 'equal' I am not exactly sure about this error message.
>>
>>Can you please tell me if this is OK and if not, how it should be formulated?
>>
>>Thanks in advance.
>
>You're communicating with humans, not programmers.
>What you really want to say to a human is that the credit limit can't be negative.
>So why not just say:
>
>"The credit limit can't be negative"

I had thought about something similar, but at least in germany there is a subgroup where double negative is not used strictly according to boolean rules ;-)
Trying to compensate for similar thought patterns in english I went with my try, and "cannot be less than zero" might be a compromise avoiding that particular possibility.
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