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#include <iostream> using namespace std; int main() { double u = 0; double w = -u; cout << w << endl; return 0; } Why does this great piece of code output -0 and not 0, as one would expect?
The IEEE 754 standard for floating-point numbers has the sign bit separate from the mantissa, which allows for zero to be negative. Wikipedia should be able to help explain this.