sgn(0) = 0 [Software]

posted by Helmut Homepage – Vienna, Austria, 2018-07-14 01:58 (2085 d 09:33 ago) – Posting: # 19060
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Hi mittyri,

❝ A question:

❝ is 0 a positive endpoint?


Nope. 0 is by definition neither positive nor negative.*

sgn(x < 0) = –1
sgn(x = 0) =   0
sgn(x > 0) = +1

Also

x = sgn(x)·|x|

Logarithms are defined only for >0.



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