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Negative numbers were slowly accepted over many centuries. They first appeared in Chinese mathematics in the 1st century AD but were not widely accepted in Europe until the 18th century. Early Greek and Arab mathematicians rejected negative numbers as absurd because they did not represent real-world quantities. Indian mathematicians in the 7th century treated negatives as debts. Europeans began using negatives in the 16th century to represent solutions to equations, though many were still skeptical. John Wa

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Ta Tran

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