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minus-squareMBM@lemmings.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·3 days agoPositive integers are (a subset of) natural numbers
minus-squareewenak@jlai.lulinkfedilinkarrow-up0·3 days agoWhy a subset? They’re the same thing right? I guess it could be about the zero?
minus-squarevery_well_lost@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·3 days agoIdentical sets are considered subsets of each other.
minus-squareSchwertImStein@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·3 days agoyou answered your own question
minus-squareewenak@jlai.lulinkfedilinkarrow-up0·3 days agoWell 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.
minus-squaredeltapi@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·edit-23 days agoI 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
minus-squareMBM@lemmings.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·3 days agoSome places (like France) talk about positive and strictly positive, others (like England) about non-negative and positive
minus-squareSchwertImStein@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·edit-23 days agoit is neither positive nor negative
Positive integers are (a subset of) natural numbers
Why a subset? They’re the same thing right? I guess it could be about the zero?
Identical sets are considered subsets of each other.
you answered your own question
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.
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
Some places (like France) talk about positive and strictly positive, others (like England) about non-negative and positive
it is neither positive nor negative