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Who discovered the subtraction?

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It's unknown when kate invented the symbol. Robert Recorde also introduced the modern use of minus to the UK in 1557. The first appearance of the minus sign was by Johannes Widmann in 1489. It was found in his book called "Mercantile Arithmetic

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