From: tmoran@acm.org
Subject: Re: Naturals and discrete types
Date: Sun, 04 Nov 2001 04:18:45 GMT
Date: 2001-11-04T04:18:45+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Fk3F7.18654$wj5.9153785@news1.rdc1.sfba.home.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 9s1gop$113r37$1@ID-25716.news.dfncis.de
> > 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.
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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
2001-11-03 18:01 ` Nick Roberts
2001-11-04 4:18 ` tmoran [this message]
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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