[LEAPSECS] LEAPSECS Digest, Vol 88, Issue 31

[Poul-Henning Kamp]

In message <CEFC056F.7CAC%kevin.birth at qc.cuny.edu>, Kevin Birth writes:

Kevin,

Do you happen to know if the church actually did ban negative numbers
for some period of time ?

I've seen several popular references claim that the church banned
negative numbers as "the devils numbers" etc, but I've not seen
anything about this subject from what I'd call trustworthy sources.

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