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Why we don't have a negative zero?

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14y ago
Updated: 8/19/2019

Because the number zero doesn't have a quantitative value - thus it could be written as a negative zero but it would still have the same value as a positive one, so we don't write any negative zeros ('cause we're lazy and write short-hand).

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