Daniël Mantione wrote: > The difference is of scientific meaning. If there were no negative zero, > the precision around zero would be halved. While true, its precision would be the same as the precision "around" all other numbers. 0 = -0.5 .. 0.4 1 = 0.5 .. 1.4 2 = 1.5 .. 2.4 etc... Micha