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Current flows through both poles of a battery: in one out the other.

Which one the current is considered to flow into or out of depends on how you describe current.

  1. conventional current - flows out the positive pole and in the negative pole (this was defined by Benjamin Franklin)
  2. electron current - flows out the negative pole and in the positive pole (this was defined following the discovery of electrons by Joseph John Thomson)
For engineering purposes it does not matter which description is used and engineers are trained to use conventional current, so they all "speak the same language" (even though it can be considered "backwards").
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