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I see how it’s intuition for addition/subtraction but that doesn’t tell us much about multiplication. You’re asserting that negative one times X is itself negat
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I see how it’s intuition for addition/subtraction but that doesn’t tell us much about multiplication. You’re asserting that negative one times X is itself negative which is in fact what the article is attempting to prove in the first place so by explicitly supposing that, your analogy isn’t useful.
- thaumasiotes 7y ago> You’re asserting that negative one times X is itself negative which is in fact what the article is attempting to prove in the first place Absolutely not. The article explicitly postulates this: > We also take for granted the fact that the product of a positive real number and a negative real number is a negative real number You're right that that's the interesting part of the question, but as far as the article is concerned, it's just an uninteresting assumption.