From: Darren New <dnew@san.rr.com>
Subject: Re: Natural data type ?
Date: Thu, 28 Mar 2002 18:33:14 GMT
Date: 2002-03-28T18:33:14+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3CA36208.14F542B2@san.rr.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 3CA347EC.5000902@oek.dk
"Peter I. Hansen" wrote:
> No, this is a misunderstanding. The natural numbers are defined to be
> the numbers you can count to. You can count to 1, you can count to 2,
> you can count to 3, ... and so forth. You cannot count to Zero.
Well, when I was in grade school, we had Whole Numbers (0, 1, 2, ...)
and Counting Numbers (1, 2, 3, ...). But we were all smart enough to get
over such an artificial distinction within a couple of days, when
negative integers came into the picture, along with the number line. ;-)
--
Darren New
San Diego, CA, USA (PST). Cryptokeys on demand.
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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
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 [this message]
2002-03-29 16:19 ` Georg Bauhaus
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