@Jennifer:
I tried to simplify it so most people could understand it. I don’t really get into theoretical mathematics for that reason. At least not on this board. But after you put forth sources and one person continually demands sources from you on the same thread, same topic, you just get to the point of not caring.
I’m not saying he’s an ignoramous. I’m just saying he has not dedicated years of his life and tens of thousands of dollars to the study of high level mathematical equations and functions. How am I supposed to have a high level discussion about it with him? I tried to make it a lower level discussion, but when you do that, you do lose a lot in transition. Though, I made a valiant attempt. It’s just difficult when people have been telling you something completely different so as not to confuse you and then have someone present the facts without the blinders placed on them.
Anyway, a three year story turned into one line:
Zero has polarity. This polarity is normally so trivial as to be ignored in 99.9% of the instances zero appears (or more.) However, just because it’s trivial does not mean it does not exist.
Well, you didn’t exactly try to explain. You talked about other things. So, I went looking myself.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Negative_zero
−0 is the representation of negative zero or minus zero, a number that exists in computing, in some signed number representations for integers, and in most floating point number representations. In mathematical terms there is no concept of a negative (or positive) zero, and −0 is identical to, and represented as, 0. In science, −0 may be used to denote a quantity which is less than zero, but which is too small in magnitude to be rounded down to −1. In statistical mechanics, certain systems in a state of population inversion may be considered to have an absolute temperature of −0.
I don’t see anything that matches what you have said, Jenn.