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=-0.4 required=5.0 tests=AC_FROM_MANY_DOTS,BAYES_00, LOTS_OF_MONEY autolearn=no 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: 2001-11-05 07:53:20 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!cyclone.bc.net!sunqbc.risq.qc.ca!60370065!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: Mon, 5 Nov 2001 10:29:43 -0500 Organization: Posted on a server owned by Pace Micro Technology plc Message-ID: <9s6b9d$ak1$1@nh.pace.co.uk> References: <9s1gop$113r37$1@ID-25716.news.dfncis.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: dhcp-200-133.miami.pace.co.uk X-Trace: nh.pace.co.uk 1004974189 10881 136.170.200.133 (5 Nov 2001 15:29:49 GMT) X-Complaints-To: newsmaster@news.cam.pace.co.uk NNTP-Posting-Date: 5 Nov 2001 15:29:49 GMT X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4522.1200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4522.1200 Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:15815 Date: 2001-11-05T15:29:49+00:00 List-Id: O.K. So seeing as how I was not just in the springtime of my senility, and Natural numbers are what Ada calls "Positive", then what's the story? Was there some kind of justification for misnaming Whole numbers to be Natural numbers? Or did someone just manage to drop the ball? MDC -- Marin David Condic Senior Software Engineer Pace Micro Technology Americas www.pacemicro.com Enabling the digital revolution e-Mail: marin.condic@pacemicro.com Web: http://www.mcondic.com/ wrote in message news:Fk3F7.18654$wj5.9153785@news1.rdc1.sfba.home.com... > > > When did Natural numbers start including zero? Was I cutting class that day? > > that, as far as mathematicians are concerned, the set of natural numbers > > (denoted by a funny N), constitutes the integers from 1 upwards (to what > "Natural numbers. The numbers 1, 2, 3, 4, etc. The same as positive > integers." Mathematics Dictionary, James & James, Van Nostrand, 1959.