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[–] ewenak@jlai.lu 5 points 4 months ago (7 children)

Why a subset? They're the same thing right? I guess it could be about the zero?

[–] SchwertImStein@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 4 months ago (4 children)

you answered your own question

[–] ewenak@jlai.lu 3 points 4 months ago (3 children)

Well what I learned in school was that zero was both positive and negative. I knew some people consider the natural numbers don't include zero, but I didn't know for some zero isn't even positive.

[–] MBM 2 points 4 months ago

Some places (like France) talk about positive and strictly positive, others (like England) about non-negative and positive

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