From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,58e0097f787e49d4 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-11-02 11:16:44 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!sn-xit-02!supernews.com!newsfeed.direct.ca!look.ca!opentransit.net!fr.clara.net!heighliner.fr.clara.net!157.161.139.35.MISMATCH!1791129!news.imp.ch!psinet-eu-nl!psiuk-p4!psiuk-p3!uknet!psiuk-n!news.pace.co.uk!nh.pace.co.uk!not-for-mail From: "Marin David Condic" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Naturals and discrete types Date: Fri, 2 Nov 2001 13:51:30 -0500 Organization: Posted on a server owned by Pace Micro Technology plc Message-ID: <9rupv9$o5h$1@nh.pace.co.uk> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: dhcp-200-133.miami.pace.co.uk X-Trace: nh.pace.co.uk 1004727081 24753 136.170.200.133 (2 Nov 2001 18:51:21 GMT) X-Complaints-To: newsmaster@news.cam.pace.co.uk NNTP-Posting-Date: 2 Nov 2001 18:51:21 GMT X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4522.1200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4522.1200 Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:15687 Date: 2001-11-02T18:51:21+00:00 List-Id: 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 -- Marin David Condic Senior Software Engineer Pace Micro Technology Americas www.pacemicro.com Enabling the digital revolution e-Mail: marin.condic@pacemicro.com Web: http://www.mcondic.com/ "Preben Randhol" 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. :-) >