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Absolutely not regarded as best-practice but more as an exception.

Sometimes you do need to present 3 sets of values to the user:

- one set for positive (true, positive number) - one set for negative (false, negative number) - one set for N/A where N/A != 0 or N/A != true/false

But be careful, that road leads to madness :)



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