An amount range whose upper end is below its lower end
amount-range-reversedon by defaultJapanese / English
An amount range that ends lower than it starts, such as "$90,000–$70,000"
Example
How to fix
Check both amounts, and correct the wrong one or write the smaller one first.
Why it matters
When an amount range ends below where it starts ("$90,000–$70,000 a year", "minimum $90,000, maximum $70,000"), the reader has to ask which amount is right and what the range is. It happens in a salary or a quote when only one of the two amounts is edited, or when the two are written the wrong way round. Two amounts in one currency are read as a range when only a range mark (–, —) or "to" stands between them, including a range that writes its currency or its "k" once ("$90–70k"). Two amounts on one line labelled minimum and maximum are compared too.
What it does not flag
Two amounts in a sentence with a word that changes a price ("the fee was reduced from $90 to $70", "cut", "dropped"), two amounts in different currencies, two amounts with words between them, and a sum ("$90 - $70 = $20") are not compared. Numbers without a currency, such as versions, pages and dates, are not read. A range that writes its "k" or its word of scale once is not compared when its two numbers are ten times apart or more.
Turning it off or relaxing it
Technical details
- Layer
- L3
- Status
- stable
- Severity
- warning
- Languages
- Japanese and English
- Suited to
- business, technical, blog, legal, docs, academic, literature, speech
Levels
Set a level for this rule under rules in chaff.yaml. With nothing set, it runs at the level its genre gives it (see By genre below).
| strict | error |
|---|---|
| normal | warning |
| relaxed | info |
This rule has no limit to count to. A level sets how a finding is marked: relaxed keeps the finding and marks it a step lower.
By genre
- Runs by default in
- technical/spec, technical/readme, blog/tech, blog/essay, blog/owned-media, business/proposal, business/report, business/email, business/press-release, business/meeting-notes, legal/contract, legal/statute, legal/judgment, legal/patent, docs/manual, docs/faq, docs/glossary, academic/paper, speech/address, speech/transcript
- Turned off by the genre in
- literature/fiction, literature/essay, literature/poetry, literature/play
Message
The amount range "{range}" ends below where it starts
This page is built from the rule's definition file:packages/chaff/rules/amount-range-reversed.yaml