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: 2001-11-04 03:39:15 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!128.39.3.168!uninett.no!ntnu.no!not-for-mail From: Preben Randhol Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Naturals and discrete types Date: Sun, 4 Nov 2001 11:39:15 +0000 (UTC) Organization: Norwegian university of science and technology Message-ID: References: <9rupv9$o5h$1@nh.pace.co.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: kiuk0156.chembio.ntnu.no X-Trace: tyfon.itea.ntnu.no 1004873955 5439 129.241.83.82 (4 Nov 2001 11:39:15 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@itea.ntnu.no NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 4 Nov 2001 11:39:15 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: slrn/0.9.7.2 (Linux) Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:15761 Date: 2001-11-04T11:39:15+00:00 List-Id: On Fri, 2 Nov 2001 13:51:30 -0500, Marin David Condic wrote: > 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? Oops! I was a bit too fast in my reply. Of course Natural numbers doesn't include 0, but I see Ada does. The Ada equivalent of Natural numbers is Positive. But that Natural numbers are integers and not real is from mathematics. :-) Preben Randhol -- "i too once thought that when proved wrong that i lost somehow" - i was hoping, alanis morisette