Re: in fact zero _is_ neither positive nor negative. THIS STATEMENT IS NOT TRUE

tttpppggg@xxxxxxxxx wrote:


Actually there is no fact here at all.
The value
+0
is the same as the value
-0
and that is the same as
0
whether or not you use a default positive sign.

So I guess if I write 2 as -(-2) it's now a negative
number because there's a minus sign out in front?
Or maybe because +2 = -(-2), we now have that 2 is
also both positive and negative, just like 0?

It's not the little plus or minus sign that makes
a number positive or negative, but whether it lies
to the left or right of zero on the number line.

Do you think that zero is on the left side of itself?
Or the right side? Or <snicker> both?

Bart

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The man without a .sig
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