Re: Does the universe exist outside our perception of it?

a precision negative zero will be represented by a bit pattern as 0x80000000
and a positive is represented as 0x00000000, a double negative zero is
represented as 0.8000000000000000 where as a double positive zero is
represented as 0x0000000000000000. so therefore both are totally different
and finite in thier own particular way. something i learned in berkely,
binary floating point arithmetic. spiritrising

"mirandajoanhowe@xxxxxxxxx" <mirandaraven@xxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> well done. however, linguistics as well as math count here. at any
> rate a less exacting math. zero & 1 or zero & x suffice for the
> exercise at hand. pythagarianly few things have one opposite merely.
> <R>
>
> Finch (evincer) VIA d'Shawnee biome esq. wrote:
>> you ask: hi! what is there that doesn't exixt in paired opposit? <?R>
>>
>> i suggest concept "zero" may qualify, since "not zero" is not a finite
>> construct.
>


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