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mdv96
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I haven't thought about this until recently but, since 0 is nothing, how is there negative numbers? How is this possible O_o?

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Joe96
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like if you make the numbers money, you owe someone money

Sarthra21
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If you're in the hole something, you have negative monies.

Integers are commonly used with currency subjects.

samy
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Also subtracting numbers is technically the same thing as adding them together so negative numbers make this possible i.e

50-40=10
50+(-40)=10

Anyway negative numbers were most likely created (or needed) to keep track of debts owed as joe pointed out.

delossantosj
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hehe algebra is fun

PureTrouble
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Less than 0, is a number that is so nothing, it takes away from the positive numbers! Now less than nothing in mass terms, well that is just outrageous and confusing. So... we wont go there! :O!

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well temperatures below 0 on Celsius and Fahrenheit scale

Fahrenheit is like -459.67 all the way through 2.538 x 10^32 (theoretical)
important for certain temperature scales and me ass freezes when i go outside -40

pHacon
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Fahrenheit is like -459.67 all the way through 2.538 x 10^32 (theoretical)
important for certain temperature scales and me *** freezes when i go outside -40


That's relative to the freezing temperatures of water and the early lowest man-made temperatures. Still not absolute zero, which is.. -273.15 Kelvin?

About negative numbers.. They're still numbers, no? Does not the absence of something still constitute as something? It may be empty space, but space is also something.

Negative values, recesses, recesses are something.. Meh, I shouldn't be thinking of ways to screw logic around late at night.
Freakenstein
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Still not absolute zero, which is.. -273.15 Kelvin?


Absolute zero is zero Kelvin. XD

*bandwagons with "Joe's" post*
pHacon
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Absolute zero is zero Kelvin. XD

Whatever, -273.15 Centigrade, then. See what I meant about the late at night part?
XVERB
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as far as temperature goes the numbers are just a scale. if you wanted to you could say 0 degrees was absolute zero. but then normal temperatures would seem VERY high.

SirLegendary
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0 is like center, when you walk left, you go negative, when you walk right, you go positive

skater_kid_who_pwns
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I'm just gonna throw this out there, I might sound insane but, google could give you a way better answer.

delossantosj
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0 is like center, when you walk left, you go negative, when you walk right, you go positive


thus creating position vs. time graphs.

I'm just gonna throw this out there, I might sound insane but, google could give you a way better answer.


lol ^^
mdv96
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Just a random topic... im really bored

gaboloth
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I think negative numbers don't mean nothing in concrete world, but they are useful for humans to represent many things.

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