Plus and minus signs
The plus and minus signs (+ and −) are mathematical symbols used to represent the notions of positive and negative as well as the operations of addition and subtraction. Their use has been extended to many other meanings, more or less analogous. Plus and minus are Latin terms meaning "more" and "less", respectively.
History
Though the signs now seem as familiar as the alphabet or the Hindu-Arabic numerals, they are not of great antiquity. The Egyptian hieroglyphic sign for addition, for example, resembled a pair of legs walking in the direction in which the text was written (Egyptian could be written either from right to left or left to right), with the reverse sign indicating subtraction:
Nicole Oresme's manuscripts from the 14th century show what may be one of the earliest uses of the plus sign "+".
In Europe in the early 15th century the letters "P" and "M" were generally used. The symbols (P with line p̄ for più, i.e., plus, and M with line m̄ for meno, i.e., minus) appeared for the first time in Luca Pacioli’s mathematics compendium, Summa de arithmetica, geometria, proportioni et proportionalità, first printed and published in Venice in 1494. The + is a simplification of the Latin "et" (comparable to the ampersand &). The − may be derived from a tilde written over m when used to indicate subtraction; or it may come from a shorthand version of the letter m itself. In his 1489 treatise Johannes Widmann referred to the symbols − and + as minus and mer (Modern German mehr; "more"): "was − ist, das ist minus, und das + ist das mer".
Minus (disambiguation)
Minus usually refers to the minus sign, a mathematical symbol.
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Minus (record label)
Minus or M-nus is a recording label based in Berlin, Germany and Windsor, Canada. It was created in 1998 by Richie Hawtin when Plus 8, a label previously created by Hawtin, was put on hold. By 2005, M-nus was releasing 2 to 3 CDs and 12 to 14 records per year.
As Hawtin said of the scaling down to a smaller label, "You learn better who you are, what you are, and how to better present that and present it creatively. With Minus, we wanted to slow it down and try new things…" In 2011 Hawtin's music technology company Liine released Remiix Minus, a remix-app for iOS which enables fans to recombine loops and samples from Minus artists.
Label roster
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- Singapore Punk Holocaust released: 2007
Singapore Punk Holocaust
Released 2007- Blinded by Wealth
- Extinct Population
- Against the Fear
- Living Hell
- Chaos World
- Green One-Eyed Monster
- Unjustified War
- Illusion Box
- Mistreated
- Sara Bewakoof Insanh
- DIY Breaks Boundaries
- Your Minds Are Machines
- War Is Rape
- Some Common Arguments Against Anarchism
- Satyagraha
- How Many More Messages Must We Convey?
- Show Us the Shinning Path
- One, a Hundred, a Thousand Vietnams
- Derita Bangsa
- Nuclear Destruction
- W.H.Y.
- The Last Ride
- In Greed We Bleed
- Alcocider Punk
- War
- To Be Continued...
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- Various Assets: Not for Sale: London 2010 released: 2010
- From Hell released: 2002
- Low Tech Music for High Tech People released:
From Hell
Released 2002- Piss Angel
- Endophagy
- Only One Per Coffin
- Cryptospordium
- Jaundice of Hookworm
- Nailed Through Her Cunt
- Come of the Tide
- Only Shadows Remain
- Network
- Resist
- Fuckwound
- Nihilism
- The Optimist
- Halo of Disease
- The Fourth Nail
- Head Fucker
- Bloodlust
- Let It Bleed
- At the Sound of the Midwinter Horn
- Dead
- Black Lung
- Arsonist
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- The Phonograph released: 2013
- 100% Pure Dubstep, Vol. 2: Mixed by DJ Hatcha released: 2011
100% Pure Dubstep, Vol. 2: Mixed by DJ Hatcha
Released 2011- Where You Should Be
- In Your Eyes
- Computation
- One (Caspa dub)
- The Trumpeter (Subscape remix)
- Bass Cannon
- Clone
- Big Boss
- First Flight
- Something in Your Eyes
- Levels (Funtcase remix)
- Watch Out
- Close (Mensah remix)
- For All Time
- Turn Me On
- Full Attention
- Take It Back (D1 remix)
- Fulham 2 Waterloo
- Perfect Stranger (Benga remix)
- In for the Kill (Skream's Let's Get Ravey remix)
- DJ Hatcha Continuous Mix 1
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- The Great Northern Whalekill released: 2008
- Halldór Laxness released: 2003
- Jesus Christ Bobby released: 2001
- Structure of Simplicity released: 2001
- Hey, Johnny! released: 1999
- Minus Rage released:
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