It depends on authors. I said that French people generally consider 0 as being 
neither positive nor negative. For instance, a positive temperature is above 
0°C.

For the french mathematician group Nicolas Bourbaki, which is a well known 
reference, zero is both positive and negative. But that not means that all 
mathematicians (being french or not) agree with this. I rather think that it is 
a non standard definition of positive (and negative). Bourbaki had certainly 
good reasons to do this, but I think it makes things more complicated. It’s 
better when the mathematical definitions are consistent with the common sense. 
And, in fact, I do not know of any other mathematicians who have adopted this 
point of view.

For Wikipedia in english – see 
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Positive_real_numbers](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Positive_real_numbers)
 – a positive number is clearly greater than zero and, this, from a 
mathematical point of view. But, even in English, your video shows that there 
is still discussion on this topic.

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