Negative Number Handling
Comments discuss oversights, bugs, or intentional exclusions of negative numbers in algorithms, functions, metrics, or computations, often pointing out that negatives should be considered or handled properly.
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Can't that go negative occasionally too? Was that intentional?
Doesn't this exclude negative numbers?
Why not go crazy? Negative values.
It's also possible to put in negative numbers :D
True, it's a negative value.
Some number need not be positive ;)
How could it be less than zero?
Oh yeah - negative numbers exist, doh!
I was surprised to hear that the minus was meaningless, but turns out that no, it does still work
It does not work with negative numbers, where can I open a ticket?