Paul Rubin wrote:
Richard Feynman told a story about being on a review committee for some grade-school science textbooks. One of these book said something about "counting numbers" and it took him a while to figure out that this was a new term for what he'd been used to calling "integers".
With all due respect to Richard Feynman, I'd have thought that "counting numbers" would be non-negative integers, rather than the full set of integers... which, I suppose, just goes to show how perilous it can be to make up new, "more natural" terms for things. ;)
Jeff Shannon Technician/Programmer Credit International
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