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They're not. They are additive inverses. The word "opposite" has no meaning in mathematics or logic. If you think of zero as a datum, then 20 and -20 are each 20 units in "opposite" directions on a number line. That's what additive inverse means: if you add them together, you get zero which is an additive identity.

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