Unquoted leading negative sign with attribute value causes trouble

I am performing a query with /connections REST API call. One of my terms is delta:-100%. When I include that term, I get a very ugly error message back (see below). When I exclude that term, things work fine. Or if I put that value inside quotes, it works fine. Is there something special about a leading negative sign for an attribute's value?

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