Bacon–Noob number or -0 (used since 1920) is a small number formulated in 1899 by mathematicians William Noob and Matthew Bacon.
Originally it was supposed to be a number less than 0 and not equal to -1. The mathematician Joseph Green von Ziegelburg III calculated that the Bacon-Noob Number is -0. He based on the fact that during a conference in 1908, William Noob, while drunk, stated that the Bacon-Noob Number could be an integer, and was not any negative number below -1 inclusive.
The mathematician John Special claimed in his calculations that the Bacon-Noob number according to Green Matcha's calculations cannot be an integer because -0 is a hypothetical number and should not be treated as a number. He proposed a solution that make the Bacon-Noob number should approximately be -0.0(0)1, but officially the number is still -0.
