bill wrote: >>From 3.2 in the Reference Manual "The Standard Type Hierarchy": > > "Integers > These represent elements from the mathematical set of whole > numbers." > > The generally recognized definition of a 'whole number' is zero and the > positive integers.
This term is ambiguous as it seems to be used for both natural numbers and signed numbers [1]. > That is to say, -1 is not a whole number. The > documentation ought to replace "whole numbers" with "integers". Then you get a circular definition, arguably not very useful. Why not simply precise 'signed whole numbers'? However, it can be noted that the first instance of such types provides the range -2147483648, 2147483647 which cannot be mistaken for natural numbers. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whole_numbers -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
