mathematics, a negative number represents an opposite. In the real number system, a negative number is a number that is less than zero. Negative numbers are...

In mathematics, the sign of a real number is its property of being either positive, negative, or 0. Depending on local conventions, zero may be considered...

the first to present a calculation involving the square root of a negative number, it was Rafael Bombelli who first set down the rules for multiplication...

up negative in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Negative may refer to: Negative number Minus sign (−), the mathematical symbol Negative mass Negative energy...

from the number that it represents. In mathematics, the notion of number has been extended over the centuries to include zero (0), negative numbers, rational...

of the extended real number line such that 1/−0 = −∞ and 1/+0 = +∞; division is undefined only for ±0/±0 and ±∞/±∞. Negatively signed zero echoes the...

number is positive or negative; when the most significant bit is 1 the number is signed as negative and when the most significant bit is 0 the number...

computing, signed number representations are required to encode negative numbers in binary number systems. In mathematics, negative numbers in any base...

names a negative number, the additive inverse of the positive number that the numeral would otherwise name. In this usage, '−5' names a number the same...

In mathematics, −1 (negative one or minus one) is the additive inverse of 1, that is, the number that when added to 1 gives the additive identity element...