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:
 

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?

 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.

 But you are significantly older than David. Not sure about James.
 

It would have been around 1984 when I first learned about terms such as "the set of integers" in a rigorous manner.