• ewenak@jlai.lu
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        2 days ago

        Why a subset? They’re the same thing right? I guess it could be about the zero?

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            2 days ago

            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.

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              2 days 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

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

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            20 hours ago

            True

            But I don’t think they would have said “a subset of” if the sets were identical.