bd on 17 Nov 2002 16:48:02 -0000


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Re: [spoon-discuss] a different society fix


On Sunday 17 November 2002 01:07 am, Rob Speer wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 16, 2002 at 11:59:59PM -0500, Wonko wrote:
> > Some would call zero a positive number. I'd want Rob's opinion on that -
> > e's a math nerd, isn't e?
>
> I'd call it a _natural_ number (some people even disagree on this part).
> But there's nothing ambiguous about "positive", which requires that the
> number is greater than zero.

It's a real number, a rational number, an integer, an even number, a complex 
number(0+0i), an imaginary number(0i), etc, etc, etc...

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bd
Oregano, n.:
	The ancient Italian art of pizza folding.

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