Re: Integral types and own type definitions (was Re: Suggested method for returning a string from a C program?)

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:
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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.

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What makes you think so?

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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.

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But you are significantly older than David. Not sure about James.
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 It would have been around 1984 when I first learned about terms such as "the set of integers" in a rigorous manner.