Although "eternity" might be the opposite of some measured time (i.e. measureless time), there is no true opposite to time.
There are opposites for certain operations involving time. The opposite of pay by the hour (time worked) could be pay by the job, or by production. Another labor opposite is seen in the difference between hourly pay and salary.
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Negative in English terms means "opposite." Multiplication can represent "of". So, negative times negative is the "opposite of the opposite." And the opposite of an opposite is the same, hence positive, because "same" is the opposite of "opposite" and positive is the opposite of negative. So if you put it into English words, it actually makes some sense. In essence, negative and negative "cancel out."
because the opposite of a negative is a positive
It is two times the magnitude of the integer.
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