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What is conventional sign?

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That means to consistently use "positive" for one thing and "negative" for the opposite. For example, north may be called positive, and south may be called negative. Precisely because signs might also be used the opposite way, a sign convention means that - for the purpose of a certain exercise, for example - a certain direction is chosen as positive. Another example is electrical charges, where one of the two charges is arbitrarily called "positive". They might just as well be labeled the opposite way, but the sign convention has been used for so long that nobody would seriously suggest changing it.

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