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It depends on what you mean by an opposite. Every real number has an additive opposite but 0 does not have a multiplicative opposite.

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Yes, every number has an opposite. For any number x, its opposite is the number -x. The opposite of a positive number is a negative number, and the opposite of a negative number is a positive number.

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