Just to make life complicated, have a look at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Positive_number
and then http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nombre_positif Yes, it seems that "positive" means >0 in English and ">=0" in French. (I suppose "nonnegative" means >=0 in English and >0 in French. The French for >0 is "strictement positive"). Kiran mabshoff wrote: > On Feb 26, 5:26 am, Ralf Hemmecke <r...@hemmecke.de> wrote: > > > Please vote for your favorite names: > > > - NaturalNumbers > > > - Naturals > > > - NaturalIntegers > > > - NonNegativeIntegers > > > / > > > - PositiveNaturals > > > - PositiveIntegers > > > > If I'd have a say... then I would choose NonNegativeInteger and > > PositiveIntegers, because nobody agrees on whether or not 0 is a natural > > number. So with NNI and PI one would avoid that confusion. > > +1 > > In Dortmund there is a regularly given class about non-negative > matrices and way back as a beginning student in math this seemed like > an odd title to me until I thought about it for a second. There is no > ambiguity there, so that is a good thing. > > > Ralf > > Cheers, > > Michael --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to sage-devel-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URLs: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
