>>>>>>It's anyone's guess whether the user will or will not know what a specific word means, but my bet would be that it's more likely that the average human (not programmer) will know what "negative" means than what >= 0 means.
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>>>>>"Greater than or equal to zero" is simpler vocabulary than "negative"
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>>>>If that works for you, Mike, enjoy it!
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>>>I find no joy in the idea that my users occupy the section of spectrum between "illiterate" and "morons". Unless it pays reeeeeally well.
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>>I haven't met any users who aren't pretty sharp in a long, long time.
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>But did you check whether they knew what "negative number" means?

Nope. They'd laugh at me - especially the younger ones - they are so far ahead of where I was at that age.
Despite all the bad press, the schools are doing a much better job than they did when I was a student.
My older grandson has read Beowulf and the Canterbury Tales in high school (I read them as a senior in college) and the younger one took AP algebra in his freshman year.