RE: OT: is zero a mathematically positive number?

Zero represents "nothingness"

Have fun,
Ahamed

-----Original Message-----
From: nobody_at_groupstudy.com [mailto:nobody_at_groupstudy.com] On Behalf Of
Narbik Kocharians
Sent: Monday, June 08, 2009 9:35 AM
To: Ravi Singh
Cc: Marc La Porte; Cisco certification
Subject: Re: OT: is zero a mathematically positive number?

To me, the zeros to the left of any number is negative, and to the right
of
the number is positive.

On Mon, Jun 8, 2009 at 9:06 AM, Ravi Singh <way2ccie_at_googlemail.com>
wrote:

> A "0" in your CCIE score card is not positive, but a 0 (rather a
> sequence of zeros ) after the default-information originate command is
> positive. Similarly, a 0 in ospf priority is negative since it negates
> the probability of being the DR .
>
> So for me 0 is perspective , not positive , negative or neutral.
>
> Ravi
>
> On Mon, Jun 8, 2009 at 12:16 PM, Marc La
Porte<marc.a.laporte_at_gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > Totally OT, but good fun I guess... just to get out mind off things
;-)
> >
> > I had a math teacher who was able to mathematically proof that 0
(zero)
> is a
> > positive number (meaning not neutral or negative). Obviously I
cannot
> > reproduce that, but...
> >
> > So, for all the math wizards out there (Petr?), amaze me with
formulas
> ;-)
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Marc
> >
> >
> > Blogs and organic groups at http://www.ccie.net
> >
> >
Received on Mon Jun 08 2009 - 09:43:06 ART