The diffence of a negative and positive number?

Question

NEGATIVE AND POSITIVE NUMBER

Answer 1

Let's start with zero, because it ain't no number, dawg

Zero, is simply a place holder. When the modern number system was first developed in India, they simply left a blank space for zero, while the Arabs added the digit zero.

Positive numbers were developed as a way to count something. So when we look at it from this point of view. Zero means nothing, +4 means you have 4. But negative 4 means what. What is owed to you, instances when people can to get something but it wasn't there. Negative is also a way of counting something.

But numbers are not one thing. A postive Farenheit temperature can be a negative celsius temperature. Because they are not orientated around a true zero. The Kelvin scale of temperature has an absolute zero so there is no negative numbers.

So in something like accounting. A negative money is money we owe. It is different from the postive, because that is money we have. If we can't pay, then it is irrelevant how much we owe.

Numbers, it wasn't until the end of the 19th century that anyone actually mathematically proved they existed or that 2+2 = 4

Answer 2

In real life terms a negative number is when you are losing money in an investment or business or gambling ("my bankroll is at -$500 and I'm going to have to recover my losses") and a positive number is when you are ahead of the game ("my account is at $500" - no "plus" sign needed).

Answer 3

negative is on the left of the zero on a number line, whereas positive is on the right

Answer 4

negative = number with dash

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Answer 5

+1 is positve +2 is positive, and so on
-1 is negative, -2 is negative, and so on
0 is neither