Why does the electricity always taken as the opposite direction of the electrons?

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The direction of flow of current was arbitrarily taken to be from positive terminal to negative terminal. Later, however, electrons were discovered and they were found out to be having a negative charge on them. So, the direction of flow of electrons is opposite to the direction of flow of conventional current.

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