Now, everybody seemed to be happy with your proposed solution except one dwarf. He stood and then asked, 'I have understood everything but why have you given '0' a different colour?' You were about to answer to his question when Shubhlin stopped you and told: I will answer your question sir. '0' is coloured differently because it is-

exactly in the centre of the number line

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is the smallest positive integer

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is the largest negative integer

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is neither positive nor negative integer

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The correct option is D
is neither positive nor negative integer

0 is coloured differently because 0 is neither positive nor negative integer.

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The correct option is D is neither positive nor negative integer 0 is coloured differently because 0 is neither positive nor negative integer.

The correct option is D
is neither positive nor negative integer

0 is coloured differently because 0 is neither positive nor negative integer.