(October 13, 2013 at 10:27 am)Aractus Wrote: There is no real-world example for negative numbers, debt or otherwise. Debts are bank bonds/contracts, they're not negative money, money is not negative bank bonds/contracts. Currency and Bonds don't even behave the same way! You can't go into a store, buy your groceries, and in leiu of payment be given a bond.Sure you can. It's called a gift certificate. And if you don't think a debt is negative money, look at your bankbook. See all those little (-) signs? That's money that you used to have, but no longer have. They are losses to your buying power.
Or does "real world" only mean things you can poke with a stick? If so, math itself doesn't exist. You're not saying that, are you?
