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From: Richard Heathfield <rjh@cpax.org.uk>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
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 17:22:07 +0000
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On 26/03/2025 16:45, David Brown wrote:
> On 26/03/2025 16:16, Michael S wrote:
>> On Wed, 26 Mar 2025 14:45:50 +0000
>> Richard Heathfield <rjh@cpax.org.uk> 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?
>>
>> It seems, he said it himself in one of replies.
> 
> Now I am doubting myself.  Still, I am pretty sure that I didn't 
> say anything like that, because I don't remember being taught 
> about a definition of the term "whole numbers" at school at all.  
> (I /do/ remember learning it from other sources while I was at 
> school - I was the weird kid who read maths books in my spare time.)
> 
>>> Mine certainly didn't.
>>
>> But you are significantly older than David. Not sure about James.
>>
> 
> It would have been around 1984 when I first learned about terms 
> such as "the set of integers" in a rigorous manner.

For me, it would have been about 1884, but then I'm a tad older 
than thee, sirrah.

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