On Sun, 04 Sep 2005 20:02:10 GMT, Bryan Olson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Reinhold Birkenfeld wrote: > > tiissa wrote: > > > >>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]. > > > > > > I cleared this up; now it reads "... set of whole numbers (positive >and negative > > ones)." > >Consider deleting the sentence in which the Python doc tries to >define mathematical integers. > > Integers > > [In Python] There are three types of integers: > This is a nice site: http://mathworld.wolfram.com/WholeNumber.html http://mathworld.wolfram.com/topics/Integers.html Regards, Bengt Richter -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
