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From: Keith Thompson <Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Integral types and own type definitions (was Re: Suggested method for returning a string from a C program?)
Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2025 13:50:43 -0700
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Richard Heathfield <rjh@cpax.org.uk> writes:
> On 26/03/2025 20:27, David Brown wrote:
>> On 26/03/2025 18:25, Richard Heathfield wrote:
>>> On 26/03/2025 16:40, David Brown wrote:
>>>> On 26/03/2025 15:45, Richard Heathfield wrote:
>>>>> On 26/03/2025 14:01, Michael S wrote:
>>>>>> But your school in UK taught you the same meaning of 'whole
>>>>>> numbers' as
>>>>>> James's school in US.
>>>>>
>>>>> What makes you think so? Mine certainly didn't. This thread was
>>>>> the first time in my life I've ever encountered the rather
>>>>> peculiar notion that whole numbers exclude negatives. Now that I
>>>>> /have/ encountered that notion, I see no compelling reason to
>>>>> endorse it.
>>>>
>>>> Yes, but didn't your school education predate Georg Cantor and the
>>>> development of set theory?  :-)
>>>
>>> Sedi ad pedes Euleri, ut numeros meos discerem, integros et aliter.
>>>
>> If you had used the original Greek, rather than Latin, I'd have been
>> /really/ impressed!
>
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Keith Thompson (The_Other_Keith) Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com
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