documentation error
Reinhold Birkenfeld
reinhold-birkenfeld-nospam at wolke7.net
Sun Sep 4 14:30:34 EDT 2005
tiissa wrote:
> bill wrote:
>>>From 3.2 in the Reference Manual "The Standard Type Hierarchy":
>>
>> "Integers
>> These represent elements from the mathematical set of whole
>> numbers."
>>
>> The generally recognized definition of a 'whole number' is zero and the
>> positive integers.
>
> This term is ambiguous as it seems to be used for both natural numbers
> and signed numbers [1].
I cleared this up; now it reads "... set of whole numbers (positive and negative
ones)."
Reinhold
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