Thread: Is positive zero equal to negative zero?

Maybe 0.999... equal to one was a little too advanced. Let's try an easier one.

If anyone (grapes, I'm looking at you!) says my terminology is imprecise here, interpret "positive zero" as zero, and "negative zero" as the additive inverse of zero.

Could post this at BAUT, but swift would probably lock it.

Originally Posted by anyone

"Zero is a zero is a zero" -- Alice B. Toklas, famous mathemagician

Except in computer science, sometimes. Signed zeroes can be different, and act different. See notes at this wiki article:
Signed zero - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Just saying.

Originally Posted by grapes

Just saying.

Let's stick within the context of the real numbers.

No, of course not.



Bazinga!

Originally Posted by caveman1917

Bazinga!

Originally Posted by Coelacanth

It's a catch phrase popularized by one of the characters of the big bang theory tv show, meaning something like "i've been pulling your leg".
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Originally Posted by caveman1917

It's a catch phrase popularized by one of the characters of the big bang theory tv show, meaning something like "i've been pulling your leg".
Like in this clip

I see!

We get the American television shows a bit later here

Originally Posted by grapes

Just saying.

Upon further reading, I notice that the page you reference says something about what the result of a comparison for equality should be

According to BASIC -0 is equal to 0.

-0 = 0. is that right... Trouble being that you can not have a - or + 0.

The 0 ( zero ) is a valueless term and can not thus have a neg or pos. Its meaningless.

Have you been drinking to much coffee ?