I believe this is true but you never know. As Beavis once said "i hate numbers. there's like too many of them."
2006-09-06 17:46:08 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Mathematics
all number above zero can be negatives. 5 can be 5- etc.
2006-09-06 17:50:25 · update #1
so i've concluded that all numbers can be turned into a negative. zero cannot, but then again zero isn't a number. thanks
2006-09-06 18:04:49 · update #2
The 'negative numbers' are actually the 'additive inverses' of the positive numbers such that a number and its' additive inverse sum to 0. 0 is called the 'additive identity' since a+0 = 0+a = a for all a. So there really isn't any reason that one can't speak of negative 0. Just remember that it has the same value as positive 0.
Doug
2006-09-06 17:56:07 · answer #1 · answered by doug_donaghue 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Yes it is. 1 can be a -1 and 2 can be a -2 and so on and so forth. Zero is the only one that cant be made into a negative, because really, zero isnt a number but rather a statement that there isnt one of it. Now if you add a number to zero, like 1, thats different and then you have 10, which can be a -10. But yea, zero is really it.
2006-09-07 00:51:03 · answer #2 · answered by Jess 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
who told u zero is positive and whole told u zero can't be negative
0 = -0 =-(-0)=+0=0
its terminology for not to write 0 as -0 or +0
donot mix up with the concept that 7 = +7
but 0 is not equal to +0 neither -0 it is only 0
thats why 0 is 0 the most beautiful and important part of mathematics
every other number is positive as well as negative .look
7 +(-7) = 0
6 +(-6) = 0
that is what is 0.neither posiyive nor negative .
2006-09-07 03:14:45 · answer #3 · answered by vijay agrawal 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Zero is not negative or not positive number
2006-09-07 00:57:08 · answer #4 · answered by M. Abuhelwa 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Technically, any positive number is non-negative. :-)
However, zero is the only non-negative number that can't be made negative by putting a minus sign in front of it.
2006-09-07 00:53:49 · answer #5 · answered by Bramblyspam 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I think you've got it backwards. Zero is only nonnegative number that can also be negative, since it is its own additive inverse. Positive zero equals negative zero.
2006-09-07 04:43:46 · answer #6 · answered by john 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Zero is not positive either. Zero is the only one that cannot be either.
Nothing is nothing...no matter how you cut it up half of zero is still zero.
2006-09-07 00:52:48 · answer #7 · answered by newsgirlinos2 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
None of the positive numbers are negative, either
Or am I misunderstanding your question?
Ana.
2006-09-07 00:48:29 · answer #8 · answered by Ilusion 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Absolute of any number can not be negative.
2006-09-07 00:56:03 · answer #9 · answered by iyiogrenci 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
thansk for the info ^_^
2006-09-07 01:20:46 · answer #10 · answered by ettezzil 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋