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| | FictionPress.Com Story : The Weird Number (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08) |
 | | The Weird Number II In the little town settled by natural numbers, there was a “creature” living in the dark woods beyond the mountains whom nobody ever thought they would ever see. |
 | | This number looked like one of the town’s citizens, the tailor, 73, only it had a subtraction sign to the right of the number. |
 | | “See, on this number line, positive numbers are written to the right of 0, starting with the number, 1,” explained -73, as he wrote 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5, along the bottom of the number line, “and negative numbers are written to the left of 0, starting with -1. |
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