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From: David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no>
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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 17:45:40 +0100
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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.