The use of integers pre-dates culture. Early hominids would almost certainly have used positive integers to determine how their "gang" compared with the opposition to determine whether it made more sense to fight or hide. Or to communicate how many days' march the good hunting ground was.
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The first place to use negative integers was China around 200 B.C
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The oldest published uses of negative numbers are from China, written sometime during the Han Dynasty (202 BC to 220 AD). They were used in India as early as the 7th century AD.
The sum of the first 250 integers is 31,125.