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[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

Well what I learned in school was that zero was both positive and negative. I knew some people consider the natural numbers don't include zero, but I didn't know for some zero isn't even positive.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

it is neither positive nor negative

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

I knew a physicist who considered 0 negative if she arrived at 0 coming from negative source numbers and positive if coming from positive sources.

Something something sampling rate

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

Some places (like France) talk about positive and strictly positive, others (like England) about non-negative and positive