Sujet : Re: Integral types and own type definitions (was Re: Suggested method for returning a string from a C program?)
De : rjh (at) *nospam* cpax.org.uk (Richard Heathfield)
Groupes : comp.lang.cDate : 26. Mar 2025, 15:45:50
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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.
What makes you think so? Mine certainly didn't. This thread was the first time in my life I've ever encountered the rather peculiar notion that whole numbers exclude negatives. Now that I /have/ encountered that notion, I see no compelling reason to endorse it.
For me the important part about whole numbers is not their sign but the part that makes them whole --- the absence of a remainder after division by 1.
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