From: stt@ada-uts
Subject: Re: Type NATURAL isn't
Date: 28 Jun 88 17:15:00 GMT [thread overview]
Message-ID: <57900076@ada-uts> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 9072@lll-winken.llnl.gov
In most high school mathematics texts, "Natural" starts at 1.
I think once you get into most grad schools, zero has been given
full "natural" status. "Whole" numbers included all of the
positive and negative integers in at least one text.
And for many friends of 2's complement notation, "positive"
includes zero.
Probably the right names for the STANDARD
integer subtypes would have been:
"Zero_Dot_Dot_Integer_Tic_Last"
and
"One_Dot_Dot_Integer_Tic_Last"
Tucker Taft
Intermetrics, Inc.
Cambridge, MA 02138
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1988-06-23 18:08 Type NATURAL isn't Scott Simpson
1988-06-24 14:45 ` Dennis Doubleday
1988-06-27 15:49 ` Larry Woods
1988-06-28 20:05 ` Walter E. Pohl
1988-06-24 17:50 ` Dave Nelson
1988-06-28 17:15 ` stt [this message]
1988-06-25 0:06 ` Steven Ryan
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