Posted by Jonathan N. Little on 10/02/56 11:44

dorayme wrote:
> In article <55yge2pfd8n5$.w18635w13l1c.dlg@40tude.net>,
> =?iso-8859-1?Q?Dav=E9mon?= <"davémon"@nospam.com> wrote:
>
>> in maths, two negatives make a positive, wheras in language
>> (English at least) two negatives are just emphatically negative. "I don't
>> know nothing about it".
>>
> This is quite misleading and vague I am afraid. In maths,
> sometimes two negatives make a negative:
>
> (-2) + (-2) = -4
>
And sometimes can result in a positive:
(-2) * (-2) = 4

;-)

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