There are lots of situations in the real world in which there are opposites, which can conveniently be expressed with positive/negative numbers. Here are some examples:Having money (positive), having a debt (negative)Getting a profit (positive) or a loss (negative) with a business ventureAn altitude above (positive) or below (negative) sea levelGaining points or losing points in a gameMoving in one direction or in the opposite direction. In this case, it is quite arbitrary which direction is chosen as positive.
Oh, dude, negative 8 is actually less than negative 3. It's like saying, "Hey, which is worse, stubbing your toe or stepping on a LEGO?" Negative numbers work in a similar way, just in the world of math instead of pain. So yeah, negative 3 is the lesser of the two evils in this case.
Well, honey, negative 4 is actually smaller than negative 7. Think of it as owing someone $7 being worse than owing them $4. So, in the world of numbers, negative 7 takes the cake for being the bigger negative. Hope that clears things up for ya!
Positive: less disease; smarter, stronger, and more productive people. Negative: lack of genetic variation; social unrest.
Temperature and Money Issues.
There are lots of situations in the real world in which there are opposites, which can conveniently be expressed with positive/negative numbers. Here are some examples:Having money (positive), having a debt (negative)Getting a profit (positive) or a loss (negative) with a business ventureAn altitude above (positive) or below (negative) sea levelGaining points or losing points in a gameMoving in one direction or in the opposite direction. In this case, it is quite arbitrary which direction is chosen as positive.
1) Temperature below zero degrees is denoted by a negative number. 2) In business, profit is shown as positive and loss as negative
The temperature of a room or country. e.g. In Canada it is -3 or in London it is 3 C
What are the ways computer impacted the world in both the positive and negative aspect?
Positive
use a absolute value to represent a negative number in the real world
Jeopardy.
There is no such number. There are two possible interpretations of the question: the smallest number being the most negative or the one with the smallest absolute value. In the first case, negative numbers, like positive numbers go on forever. One less than the previous smallest will always be smaller. In the second case, numbers are infinitely dense. So for positive fractions, half of the previous smallest will be smaller still.
For example, an altitude above sea-level can be expressed as a positive number; below sea-level is negative.Or: If you have money, you have a positive amount of money; if you owe money, that goes against you, you have "less than nothing", so it can be expressed as a negative amount.In technology and science - would you classify that as "real-world"? - negative numbers are used all the time. For example, if you decide that moving in a certain direction (e.g., "up") is positive, a movement in the opposite direction is negative.
Negative because he killed millions of people.
It depends what is written in the letter. Hopefully positive!
Whenever you have two opposites, you can use positive number for one, and negative numbers for the other. For example: * Having money might be positive, owing money might be negative (owing money is worse than just having nothing). * Getting money might be a positive change; spending money (or otherwise losing it), a negative change. * Places above sea level might be assigned a positive altitude; places below sea level, a negative altitude. * If latitudes north of the equator are defined as positive, then latitudes south of the equator would be negative. Or the other way round.