#16 Where do the plus, minus, multiplication, and division symbols come from?

I learned this today. The mathematical symbols + plus, – minus, x multiply, ÷ divide, and = equal are not as old as we think. Mathematics itself goes back a very long way. The idea of counting began with hunter-gatherer tribes. Presumably, they would have known how to talk about adding and subtracting parts of […]

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