RE: ORA-FO-NEGATIVE-ZERO 6.1 Numeric Types from Ashok Malhotra on 2003-07-23 (public-qt-comments@w3.org from July 2003)

From: Ashok Malhotra <ashokma@microsoft.com>
Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2003 05:46:02 -0700
To: "Stephen Buxton" <stephen.buxton@oracle.com>, <public-qt-comments@w3.org>
Message-ID: <E5B814702B65CB4DA51644580E4853FB09841594@red-msg-12.redmond.corp.microsoft.com>

Positive and negative zero compare equal and cannot be distinguished in
our specification.

All the best, Ashok 

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Subject: ORA-FO-NEGATIVE-ZERO 6.1 Numeric Types 

 

Functions and Operators, Section 6.1 Numeric Types 


Are there any operations that distinguish a -0 from a +0 ? 
Or is the distinction only apparent on serialization ?

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