Zero: Negative or Positive or Neutral

[Phantom Zero]

As the name says Zero a negative or a positive? My view is that it is a positive.... only negatives have the sign like this(-) positives don't have those signs, now zero doesn't have a negative sign so that means it must be a positive.

[General Veers]

Only QWERTY keyboards have a top row of QWERTYUIOP. Dvorak keyboards do not have that top row layout. Some obscure alternatives also do not have the QWERTYUIOP top row layout, so they must be Dvorak (and not some other existing alternative such as Colemak, Capewell, and Arensito, which are all real English keyboard layouts).

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Positive and negative numbers are defined relative to zero. If the number is greater than zero, it is positive. If the number is less than zero, it is negative. If a number is not greater than zero AND not less than zero (i.e. if it is zero itself), then it is neither positive or negative.

If you wanted, you could revise the reference point of the definition, so that a different number is the "pivot." In theory, you could redefine "positive" and "negative" as "greater than e" and "less than e" respectively, or "greater than 9025" and "less than 9025" respectively.

Some advanced calculators have a "sign(x)" function with the following definition:

• -1 if x < 0
  
• sign(0) if x = 0
  
• 1 if x > 0
  

If you were to type "sign(0)" (or whatever would be the correct syntax), it should return itself. The programmers of the calculator indicate that zero is neither positive or negative.

[Qwerty]

I hear my name!

...In a keyboard reference. Yay.

Anyway, long story short: It is neither. Not much to debate here.

[Phantom Zero]

....ok lock it

[Qwerty]

Alright.

By request...

[GGoodie]

Its not locked :3

[Qwerty]

...oops.