We're scratching our heads about a line in a student's work: "This is a scalar quantity, so can't be negative." Is this a different definition that they could've been taught at school, like how some teachers define "whole numbers" to be positive?

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In reply to @christianp

(I'm not ready to have another argument about whether whole numbers are always positive, by the way)

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