Paul Rubin wrote: > "D'Arcy J.M. Cain" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_number >> Recheck the context. I was talking about the natural result, not >> natural numbers. > > The natural result of doing arithmetic with natural numbers is more > natural numbers.
Back when I was just a wee little developer, I was taught that division over the natural number was *not* a closed operation. (I still like integer division, and I'm OK with the fact that it truncates.) -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list