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From: BURT on 8 Jun 2010 19:48
You cannot take away from a quantity more than its absolute value. You
canot subtract from zero. The minus sign for a negative number is only
real as a subtraction operator.

Mitch Raemsch
From: Pollux on 8 Jun 2010 19:53
(6/8/10 4:48 PM), BURT wrote:
> You cannot take away from a quantity more than its absolute value. You
> canot subtract from zero. The minus sign for a negative number is only
> real as a subtraction operator.
>
> Mitch Raemsch
Ah yeah, that's right. I heard something about people opposing the
existence of negative numbers. Wasn't that in the middle ages?

Pollux

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From: BURT on 8 Jun 2010 19:57
On Jun 8, 4:53 pm, Pollux <po....(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> (6/8/10 4:48 PM), BURT wrote:> You cannot take away from a quantity more than its absolute value. You
> > canot subtract from zero. The minus sign for a negative number is only
> > real as a subtraction operator.
>
> > Mitch Raemsch
>
> Ah yeah, that's right. I heard something about people opposing the
> existence of negative numbers. Wasn't that in the middle ages?
>
> Pollux
>
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The existence of negative numbers is that they are absolutes values
with a minus operator. Their role is simply for subtraction. They are
not any negative quantity.

There is no quantity below the absence of quantity or zero.
Please show otherwise.

Mitch Raemsch
From: Uncle Al on 8 Jun 2010 21:09
BURT wrote:
>
> You cannot take away from a quantity more than its absolute value.

1) Look in the mirror. Ipse dixit, quod erat demonstrandum.
2) The national debt.

> Mitch Raemsch

idiot

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From: William Hughes on 8 Jun 2010 21:25
On Jun 8, 8:57 pm, BURT <macromi...(a)yahoo.com> wrote:

> There is no quantity below the absence of quantity or zero.

Depending on your definition of "quantity" this may be true.
Of course the idea that a number must represent quantity
is silly
- William Hughes
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