The origin of (-) Minus Sign 🙀

Ever stopped to wonder where the minus sign (−) really came from? 🤔
It wasn’t always a math symbol — it began as a quick scribble!

Back in the day, scribes used a simple dash or tilde as a shorthand for “minus” in handwritten manuscripts. It saved time… and ink. 🖋️

By the 1400s, this tiny stroke appeared in printed math books, and just like that, the modern minus sign was born.
From a lazy line to a global symbol for subtraction — now that’s math history!

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