"We" *who* says that? I don't recall hearing it.
Well, me and Jim at least, and on googling "strictly positive", the ProofWiki is one of the first hits to think it's a thing: https://proofwiki.org/wiki/Definition:Strictly_Positive/Number I think "strictly positive" might originate in French, where 0 is both positive and negative, instead of neither (ref: https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/26705/is-zero-positive-or-negative) I don't like "weakly positive", though I can't articulate why. On Fri, 27 Jul 2018 at 07:57 Dan Asimov <dasimov@earthlink.net> wrote:
"We" *who* says that? I don't recall hearing it.
----- we sometimes say that a is strictly positive as a way of saying a>0 -----
—Dan
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