A gentle puzzle I was just asked.
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What is the smallest positive integer minus the largest negative integer?
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It seems a lot read it wrongly... The art of understanding a question...
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Smallest positive integer = 1 Largest negative integer = -1 Difference is 2.
That was my first shot as well, but the answers above cast a big doubt. I am too naive.
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Infinity - if you're talking about real numbers.
The difficult we do right away... ...the impossible takes slightly longer.
Oh? Is -2 bigger than -1 now? :-D
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Undefined, tending to infinity???
So which is bigger: -1 or -2?
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Smallest positive integer = 1 Largest negative integer = -1 Difference is 2.
Dat's de bunny! :thumbsup: Surprising how many people think -2 is bigger than -1. :-D
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony "Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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What is the smallest positive integer minus the largest negative integer?
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony "Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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Dat's de bunny! :thumbsup: Surprising how many people think -2 is bigger than -1. :-D
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Also what I got, mostly as I've had to solve this puzzle in multiple math classes, and was usually the only person to get it right (sadly).
What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question? The metaphorical solid rear-end expulsions have impacted the metaphorical motorized bladed rotating air movement mechanism. Do questions with multiple question marks annoy you???
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What is the smallest positive integer minus the largest negative integer?
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony "Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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Is zero positive?
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From a comp sci and data representation perspective, yes. Not sure about the math perspective.
Jeremy Falcon
From a math perspective, zero is neither positive nor negative: Negative number - Wikipedia[^]
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Is zero positive?
From a math perspective, zero is neither positive nor negative: Negative number - Wikipedia[^]
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It's always 42; we just didn't invent the math yet to get us there.
Jeremy Falcon
We did: fractional bases[^] - but it makes my head hurt trying to think of them ... :-D
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony "Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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Is zero positive?
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What is the smallest positive integer minus the largest negative integer?
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony "Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
at what bit depth? ;P
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at what bit depth? ;P
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Start with two bit signed numbers and work your way up from there ... :-D That always made me laugh - back in the day when CD players were the Bee's Knees they proudly announced the kit contained a "1 bit DA converter" on the adverts (and the player, normally).
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Is zero positive?
1 - (-1) = 1+1 = 2
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What is the smallest positive integer minus the largest negative integer?
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony "Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
Isn't it just 2? I mean the smallest positive int is 1. The largest negative int is -1. (-1 is bigger than -2) so it's just 1 - (-1) which is 2.
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What is the smallest positive integer minus the largest negative integer?
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony "Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
The question is ambiguous in terms of what "largest negative" means. In a strict mathematical sense, that number is -1. But in an natural language sense, "largest negative" would mean "most negative". For example, when my bank account hits $-500, I owe a larger amount than when its only $-10!
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What is the smallest positive integer minus the largest negative integer?
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony "Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
This is why I hated math word problems. To me, the "largest negative integer" is -infinity because, for example, -3 is "larger" than -2 on the "negative" scale. "Largeness" to me is ambiguous. But my brain works in weird ways when it comes to converting words into math expressions.
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