From: "Marin David Condic" <dont.bother.mcondic.auntie.spam@[acm.org>
Subject: Re: Naturals and discrete types
Date: Fri, 2 Nov 2001 13:51:30 -0500
Date: 2001-11-02T18:51:21+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <9rupv9$o5h$1@nh.pace.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: slrn9u5sp5.v0j.randhol+abuse@kiuk0156.chembio.ntnu.no
Except that when I was in gradeschool and "The New Math" was popular, they
called those "Whole" numbers with "Natural" numbers being from 1..Infinity
(Or Integer'Last, if you just want to get the job done...)
When did Natural numbers start including zero? Was I cutting class that day?
MDC
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"Preben Randhol" <randhol+abuse@pvv.org> wrote in message
news:slrn9u5sp5.v0j.randhol+abuse@kiuk0156.chembio.ntnu.no...
> >
> > Natural is a subtype of Integer with a range of 0 to Integer'last.
>
> Which again comes from basic mathematics. :-)
>
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2001-11-01 22:05 Naturals and discrete types Clueless
2001-11-01 22:35 ` Matthew Heaney
2001-11-01 22:59 ` Clueless
2001-11-02 15:05 ` Marin David Condic
2001-11-02 17:24 ` Ted Dennison
2001-11-02 18:19 ` Preben Randhol
2001-11-02 18:51 ` Marin David Condic [this message]
2001-11-03 18:01 ` Nick Roberts
2001-11-04 4:18 ` tmoran
2001-11-05 15:29 ` Marin David Condic
2001-11-04 11:39 ` Preben Randhol
2001-11-05 2:01 ` Clueless
2001-11-05 2:37 ` Larry Kilgallen
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2001-11-01 23:06 Beard, Frank
2001-11-01 23:20 ` Clueless
2001-11-02 3:05 ` DuckE
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