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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 20:34:09 +0000
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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!

Quidquid Latine dictum sit, altum videtur.

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