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Why didn't European mathematicians accept negative numbers
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Anonymous 2016-01-20 20:50:15 Post No. 7798059 [Report]
Why didn't European mathematicians accept negative numbers before the 17th century? What's so puzzling about them? Do you accept negative numbers?

Is x^2+6x+1=0 even solvable?
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Anonymous 2016-01-20 20:53:20 Post No.7798063
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Anonymous 2016-01-20 20:53:20 Post No.7798063 [Report]
>>7798059
As a European descendant my fingers and toes only go up to about one and a half score. I don't know how many you'd need before you start having no score.
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Anonymous 2016-01-20 21:14:55 Post No.7798102
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I hear that if you take infinitely many people, give them each a number, ask them to raise the same number of fingers as the number they have, and count the total, you will get a number that's less than 0.
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