It looks like my information is somewhat old (Bourbaki), and that recent usage is in line with English. https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nombre_positif N. Bourbaki souligne : « On notera que 0 est l'unique élément à la fois positif et négatif ; tout élément x tel que 0<x (resp. x<0) est dit strictement positif (resp. strictement négatif). » N. Bourbaki wrote: "It will be noted that 0 is the unique element that is both positive and negative; an element x such that 0<x (resp. x<0) is said to be strictly positive (resp. strictly negative)." On Fri, Jul 27, 2018 at 2:52 PM, Dan Asimov <dasimov@earthlink.net> wrote:
What? I find this hard to believe. I spent a year at a French math institute near Paris and never heard that "positif" includes 0.
—Dan
----- In French, "positive" includes 0, whereas in English, it excludes zero. -----
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