Fix mistake in hoon-school

Atom is non-negative not non-zero
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@ -59,7 +59,7 @@ _Everything_ in Hoon (and Nock, and Urbit) is a noun. The Urbit OS itself is a
### Atoms
If an atom is a nonzero number, how do we represent anything else? Hoon provides each atom an _aura_, a tag which lets you treat a number as text, time, date, Urbit address, IP address, and much more.
If an atom is a non-negative number, how do we represent anything else? Hoon provides each atom an _aura_, a tag which lets you treat a number as text, time, date, Urbit address, IP address, and much more.
An aura always begins with `@` pat, which denotes an atom (as opposed to a cell, `^` ket, or the general noun, `*` tar). The next letter or letters tells you what kind of representation you want the value to have.