minus zero?

[yummyumm]

According to my car, the temperature the other day was -0.

I might be being a bit thick, but I thought it goes:

...-2, -1, 0, 1, 2, 3 etc. can you get -0???

[CT]

Technically, '0' is neither +ve or -ve. If anyone could be bothered then it should go like this. -3, -2, -1, 0, +1, +2, +3. Normal notation though leaves out the +.

[fo3nix]

it could be a rounding issue on part of the computer

may have been -0.5, and the screen is only set to show 0 in such cases (but preserves the - sign).

[Peter Pedant]

yeah alot of machines that take a signal express it as whole digit

so if something is showing 0.0 and in fact it a little below -0.1, you know like -0.09...

then it may go -0.0

I had to ask comeone when I first say this about thirty years ago.

[Pherstun]

Our car does this too.

[espookid]

The answer you need is that yes there is -0 and +0 and it is so you can determine the likelyhood of ice because +0 doesn't freeze

[claireyfairy]

there is no such thing as -0. numbers such as 1,2,3 etc mean "1, 2 or 3 more than 0" and -1,-2,-3 mean "1,2 or 3 less than zero". So no, you cannot have -0. It is likely to be, as already stated, a rounding of numbers thing so the actual temp was probably -0.4, -0.3 etc (not -0.5 cos then it would have been rounded up to -1)