Timeline for Has the idea that the result of division of positive number by negative number should be negative ever been controversial?
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| S Feb 20 at 2:08 | history | suggested | J. W. Tanner | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Mar 16, 2021 at 9:51 | comment | added | Anixx | @MauroALLEGRANZA A natural way to define division by negative numbers is by Laplace transform: $\frac1a=\int_0^\infty e^{-at}dt$ | |
| Jan 31, 2021 at 14:29 | vote | accept | Anixx | ||
| Jan 29, 2021 at 12:21 | comment | added | Carl Witthoft | Not to mention that $\frac{a}{b}$ is the same as $a*\frac{1}{b}$ . | |
| Jan 29, 2021 at 7:53 | answer | added | Dave L Renfro | timeline score: 12 | |
| Jan 29, 2021 at 7:44 | comment | added | Mauro ALLEGRANZA | Thus, the basic question is "why minus times minus is plus?" and "who wrote down minus times minus is equal to plus?" | |
| Jan 29, 2021 at 7:43 | comment | added | Mauro ALLEGRANZA | The main issue is about consistency of the manipulation rules. The basic property of division is that if $c = \dfrac a b$, then $a= b \times c$ | |
| Jan 29, 2021 at 0:27 | history | asked | Anixx | CC BY-SA 4.0 |