Is commerce really the origin of the concept of negative numbers? That's really interesting and makes a lot of sense.
Will you talk about irrational numbers at all? I'm curious about their origin.
> Is commerce really the origin ...I don't know, but by 'bookkeeping convention" I didn't mean to imply commerce, I just meant it in the sense that one keeps track of something.
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Is commerce really the origin of the concept of negative numbers? That's really interesting and makes a lot of sense.
Will you talk about irrational numbers at all? I'm curious about their origin.
> Is commerce really the origin ...
I don't know, but by 'bookkeeping convention" I didn't mean to imply commerce, I just meant it in the sense that one keeps track of something.
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