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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