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1 (one) is the center of positive numbers. And -1 is the center of negative numbers. This is counter-intuitional, but quite reasonable.

The smallest positive number is 1 divided by infinity. The largest positive number is infinity divided by one. The logical middle of this spectrum is 1 divided by 1. Or 1 times 1.

Just as 0 (zero) is the border between addition and subtraction, 1 (one) is the border between division and multiplication. Division and multiplication are two ways to write the same numerical-sexual operator. To divide a number by x is to multiply it by 1-over-x.

what is the difference between 1 over infinity and negative 1 over infinity? is it zero ? And does zero equal, for multiplication/division the same thing as -1/infinity? and 1/infinity? Except that the sign can still change the polarity it is multiplied/divided by.

The negatives are an anti-world to the positives. Zero is the strange number between these worlds. And zero covers an infinitely small space of the number line. To speak figuratively but seriously, there is only one number. But this number is twisted into many self-related and self-grounded shapes by our complex notation. The two key manifestations of this number concept are one and zero, or presence and absence.

Only the tiniest point on the number line is absence, or zero. The rest is presence or reverse presence.