Zero is positive

Hi I'm not too sure about this, but I have a theory that zero is a positive number. I'm based on the evidence that 0 is not negative, nor it's written with a "-" sign, therefore it must be positive.

>>1
And why should all numbers be positive or negative?

0 isn't really a number,its just kind of a filler.Its nore negative nor postive

>>3
Stop saying 0 isn't a number.

0 is nothing, simply nothing, you can't have positive nothing, and you can't have negative nothing, you can just have... nothing

>>5
When talking about physical objects, yes. But we're not talking about physical objects. We're talking about numbers. Only an idiot thinks zero isn't a number. The fact that zero is a number makes much of modern mathematics possible.

If zero isn't a number, then addition is not a closed operation: -3 + 3 = ???

Zero is this many:
see?

>>8
-1 is this many: OMG WHAT DO I DO?

I guess negative numbers don't exist either.

modren mothatematics is ungodly

Just because people don't choose to write a negitive symbol before the zero, doesn't mean it is positive. The number "4" is positive, and we don't write a positive symbol before it. I can see where you are coming from with this theory, but if the was a positive zero, there would also have to be a negitive zero, and seeing how there values would be identical, this cannot be true.

By the way, zero is a number.

Zero is a number, just like 1 / 0

>>12
you are a fucking idiot

>>13
Trolling, on SCCCIIIEEENNNCNCCCE

>>14
just like 1 / 0

>>15
yes in limits it can work

what about neutral?

0 is neither positive or negative

>>18
Just like sqrt(-1)/0

>>18
0 is neither positive or negative but can be considered either in programming situations involving rounding

>>20
A number rounded to +0 is not 0.

properties of positive and negative don't apply to zero anyway. the closest i can think of "it matters" is maybe

5^0. 5^0 = 1. not some strange 1/(5^x)

>>22
you mean like 1/(5^0)

0 = (-pi)^0.5

>>24
Do you genuinely believe that 0^2 is -pi?

>>25
I don\'t choose what to believe, my beliefs are restricted by what has been proven to be true.

>>25
you're an idiot to evaluate a false statement to begin with

0 = sqrt(-1) ?

>>26
Right, right. I always get those minus pi's popping up when I'm evaluating definite integrals of probability density functions.

>>28
Your calculator is wrong.

0 is positive you fucking pussies

>>29
That would include my statistics textbooks?

>>29
In fact, I've just realised you were supporting my argument. Maybe my sarcasm wasn't clear.

*sigh*

Zero is neither positive nor negative. This is why the terms "positive" and "non-negative" have different meanings in mathematics: one includes zero while the other doesn't.

Actually zero is negative.

You see, a number line can't BEGIN with an odd number, that would make it have more odd numbers then even, which we know isn't true.  So a number line has to begin with an even number, negative infinity is odd remember (If you don't remember GB2Elementary Algebra).  Therefore the start of the negative number line HAS TO BE zero, in other words zero is on the negative number line, it is negative.

>>34
Great troll, or terrible math student?

Errr...
0 is exactly what Anon >>33 said.  You cannot say that 0 is positive or negative because
1)It's not the beginning or end of the numberline like "Im with stupid" right above this post said, its the center.
2)When there is an odd number of negative factors in an expression, the expression is negative.  When there is ANY number of factors that equal 0, then the expression is zero.
3)0 on the cartisian plain (x, y, or z) is the axis, not a coordinate pt.
4)adding 0 to an expression neither subracts or adds, it does nothing.  IE: you could say 1 + 0 = 1 - 0 = 1
5)the ENTIRE CONCEPT of negative and positive numbers is based on zero!  Definition of positive number: "A number that is greater than zero" or even "A number that is right of 0 on the number line"  conversely, the definition of a negative number is "A number that is less than zero" or even "A number that is left of 0 on the number line"

Since 0 is neither greater than itself or less than itself, it is neither positive or negative.

PS - Sage the hell out of this forum.  This guy is either a horrible math student or an ass.
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