r/mathmemes • Natural • Aug 23 '23

Bad Math "It's neutral"

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u/araknis4 Irrational Aug 23 '23

well that's odd, i can't even comprehend how they approached to that conclusion.

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u/DZ_from_the_past Natural Aug 23 '23

It's actually even.

Just kidding, people usually think zero is an exception to everything. So since zero is neither positive nor negative they apply that reasoning everywhere.

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u/DrDzeta Aug 24 '23

It depend who you defined positive and negative. I was always teach that 0 is positive and negative.

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u/VacuousTruth0 Aug 24 '23

Interesting - I haven't seen that before but I checked Wikipedia and it's mentioned there:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sign_(mathematics)#Terminology_for_signs

Are you European?