From: "Peter I. Hansen" <pih@oek.dk>
Subject: Re: Natural data type ?
Date: Thu, 28 Mar 2002 00:18:26 +0100
Date: 2002-03-28T00:18:26+01:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3CA25342.1080906@oek.dk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: a7rbif$rmb$1@msunews.cl.msu.edu
Chad R. Meiners wrote:
>No misprint. The natural numbers can be define as containing zero as well
>as not containing zero. I know a good deal of mathematicians that define N
>to include zero; I also know a good deal of mathematicians that prefer N to
>only include positive whole numbers (zero is neither positive nor negative).
>
>-CRM
>
So, your answer is that someone just made a random decision ?
/Peter
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-03-27 23:18 UTC|newest]
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2002-03-27 2:13 Natural data type ? Peter I. Hansen
2002-03-27 2:57 ` Chad R. Meiners
2002-03-27 23:18 ` Peter I. Hansen [this message]
2002-03-28 3:55 ` Chad R. Meiners
2002-03-28 15:40 ` Marin David Condic
2002-03-28 16:47 ` Peter I. Hansen
2002-03-27 14:25 ` Marin David Condic
2002-03-28 16:45 ` Peter I. Hansen
2002-03-28 16:30 ` Georg Bauhaus
2002-03-28 16:42 ` Peter I. Hansen
2002-03-28 18:33 ` Darren New
2002-03-29 16:19 ` Georg Bauhaus
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