29 Oct
2003
29 Oct
'03
7:36 p.m.
On Wed, 29 Oct 2003, Alec Mihailovs wrote:
On Behalf Of Andy Latto
0 isn't a positive integer.
I was told that 0 is a positive integer in France though...
It's a pity that "positive" is defined exclusively, but I don't think we can afford to change it. I rather doubt that 0 is counted as positive in France - what I expect the remark refers to is "natural number", whose meaning is changing from the exclusive to the inclusive sense, and seems to have largely done so already in France. What we ought to do, is find an existing word that we can use to mean "positive or zero". John Conway