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Old Fri Feb 01, 2002, 01:37pm
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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Mark Dexter
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Same here! You don't soon forget an 80-year-old priest shouting "Not minus! Opposite of X, opposite!!!"
Since in math (particularly Algebra and above), "negative" means roughly the same thing as "oppsosite", what's the difference? What's the big deal about "negative"? I honestly don't know and I took a year and a half of college calculus.

Chuck
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