I think that's because double entry bookkeeping *precedes* the concept of negati...

adwn 26 days ago | parent | context | favorite | on: Engineers do not get to make startup mistakes when...

I think that's because double entry bookkeeping precedes the concept of negative numbers. To be more precise, double entry bookkeeping was invented by people who had not yet been introduced to negative numbers.

At least that's how it's been explained to me.