Do we really need West and South when we can use negative North and negative East?

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[–] 11 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

I would not be surprised compasses were invented before negative numbers

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negative numbers : 200 BCE
compasses : as early as 202 BCE

(these are just from a cursory search, I am not a specialist)

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