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‘You mean you can’t take less,’ said the Hatter: ‘It’s very easy to take more than nothing’. The Mad Hatter said no to negative numbers. Sometimes we withdraw more cash from the bank than is in our bank account. Where is the negative money? We then use the cash for shopping. The money given to the shopkeepers is real.
Negative numbers have not been widely accepted for long. Euclid (300 BCE) was only interested in positive rationals as solutions. They appeared in China during the Han dynasty (202 BCE to 220 CE) in the Nine Chapters on the Mathematical Art. They had a system of rods of different colours for positive and negative
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