• ewenak@jlai.lu
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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