Re: another believe or not... -0 (negative zero)

There are two camps of thought about zero. One camp says that zero does not have a sign (pos or neg). The other camp says that zero is positive because it belongs to the natural numbers. Although that begs the question on wether zero is in the natural numbers. There are two camps on that idea as well, although most people today agree that zero is a natural number.

HTH,
Brian

Billy Verreynne wrote:
>
> Steve Perry wrote in message <807tba$mtj$1_at_nntp2.atl.mindspring.net>...
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> <lots snipped>
> >I assume Oracle protected the integrity of the data, so I'm confused.
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> Weird, but even so does it matter? Negative zero or positive zero does not
> influence a sum.
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> Come to think of it, is zero actually positive as:
> -0 = +0
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> This means I would think that zero is neither positive or negative.
>
> :-)
> Billy
Received on Fri Nov 12 1999 - 07:53:24 CST