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Who invented negative numbers?

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Anonymous

15y ago
Updated: 10/17/2024

One source says that a Chinese text (Nine Chapters in the Mathematical Arts) from around 200 BC used red rods for positive numbers and black for negative. So the "inventor" must be older than that. European texts up until the Renaissance considered negative numbers as absurd.

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