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Posted: Tue Apr 24, 2007 12:22 pm
by AncientAnubis
Come_Forth wrote:Ok so if : = divide then the problem would look like this 0 - 0 x 2 x 0 x (0 x 0.5) - 0^5 / 0 so it would be 0/0 which is not negative zero.
0-0=0
0x2=0
0x.5=0
0^5=0
Zero minus zero is zero not negative zero, and zero divided by zero is not -0. I do not see how the answer could be -0.
Zero cannot be negative or positive, and anything divided by zero is undefined.
Posted: Tue Apr 24, 2007 12:26 pm
by V|per
Yup, what he said.
That's also what our teacher told us. I've never even heard of a negative zero.
Posted: Tue Apr 24, 2007 12:40 pm
by Mukasa
i have...in school...but there's no point if we all argue what is right and what is wrong..maybe some teachers talk BS...i know few of em....
and i have a feeling this thread will be moved to maths section
btw...wouldn't it be niec if we really had maths section...we could talk there all day long...maybe get few nobel prizes.....rofl
Posted: Tue Apr 24, 2007 12:48 pm
by Juliette
It's kinda like the year 0 BC/AD... never existed, yet in many cultures there's the linguistic expression that something is from 'year zero', '0 AD' or something similar. I prefer 'Stone Age'. Not accurate, but at least it existed (well, as far as generally accepted history is concerned).
I am so annoyed by the year 0. People keep referring to it as if it actually existed... but at the time of the new calendars, there was no '0' at all in the European mindset, so there was no year 0 either.

Just... 1 BC and then 1 AD. 0 is nothing. Symbolic, at best.

Posted: Tue Apr 24, 2007 6:03 pm
by AncientAnubis
Mukasa wrote:i have...in school...but there's no point if we all argue what is right and what is wrong..maybe some teachers talk BS...i know few of em....
and i have a feeling this thread will be moved to maths section
btw...wouldn't it be niec if we really had maths section...we could talk there all day long...maybe get few nobel prizes.....rofl
I have a feeling that's where I would spend most of my time, especially if someone had a calculus section.
Posted: Tue Apr 24, 2007 6:10 pm
by Tok`ra
Jadzia wrote:It's kinda like the year 0 BC/AD... never existed, yet in many cultures there's the linguistic expression that something is from 'year zero', '0 AD' or something similar. I prefer 'Stone Age'. Not accurate, but at least it existed (well, as far as generally accepted history is concerned).
I am so annoyed by the year 0. People keep referring to it as if it actually existed... but at the time of the new calendars, there was no '0' at all in the European mindset, so there was no year 0 either.

Just... 1 BC and then 1 AD. 0 is nothing. Symbolic, at best.

Indeed.......
-0.000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000 (plus a few more zeros...)1<0<0.000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000 (plus a few more zeros...)
Get teh point.
There simple IS NO OTEHR ZERO, it is neither positve or negative.
And while -0.0001<0 its also funnt, because nothing and less than nothing are still both nothing, yet nothing is somehow more than nothing.