A simple question.

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We can have less than nothing in mathematics. All negative numbers are "less than nothing".

Which goes to reflect that math is not "reality"

aw... that is inaccurate, IMO. negative numbers may represent physical events such as deceleration.

And I can represent a speckled toad by the letter "B". Does that mean the toad is the letter "B"?

The concept of negative numbers is that they are less than nothing. We use them for subtraction and the like. However, you can't have less than nothing in reality... the lowest you can go under normal space-time (to my knowledge!) is zero.

if I'm not mistaken, scalar quantities cannot be described by negative numbers. Math may be a description of reality just as a painting is a description of 'reality'. remember, reality is reality.

I would agree that math can describe reality... however (in the way the water you paint is not 'real') you can't have 6 bananas less than none. You just have no bananas. You might owe someone six bananas, and have none... but what this means is that when you get bananas again, that person gets 6 of them... not that you were holding 6 bananas less than none the entire time