Re: documentation error

2005-09-07 Thread Terry Hancock
On Sunday 04 September 2005 01:30 pm, Reinhold Birkenfeld wrote: > tiissa wrote: > > bill wrote: > >>>From 3.2 in the Reference Manual "The Standard Type Hierarchy": > >> > >> "Integers > >> These represent elements from the mathematical set of whole > >> numbers." > >> > >> The generally rec

Re: documentation error

2005-09-04 Thread Bryan Olson
Bengt Richter wrote: > Bryan Olson wrote: >>Consider deleting the sentence in which the Python doc tries to >>define mathematical integers. > This is a nice site: > > http://mathworld.wolfram.com/WholeNumber.html > http://mathworld.wolfram.com/topics/Integers.html So maybe: Integers

Re: documentation error

2005-09-04 Thread Bengt Richter
On Sun, 04 Sep 2005 20:02:10 GMT, Bryan Olson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Reinhold Birkenfeld wrote: > > tiissa wrote: > > > >>bill wrote: > >> > From 3.2 in the Reference Manual "The Standard Type Hierarchy": > >>> > >>>"Integers > >>>These represent elements from the mathematical set of

Re: documentation error

2005-09-04 Thread Bryan Olson
Reinhold Birkenfeld wrote: > tiissa wrote: > >>bill wrote: >> From 3.2 in the Reference Manual "The Standard Type Hierarchy": >>> >>>"Integers >>>These represent elements from the mathematical set of whole >>>numbers." >>> >>>The generally recognized definition of a 'whole number

Re: documentation error

2005-09-04 Thread Reinhold Birkenfeld
tiissa wrote: > bill wrote: >>>From 3.2 in the Reference Manual "The Standard Type Hierarchy": >> >> "Integers >> These represent elements from the mathematical set of whole >> numbers." >> >> The generally recognized definition of a 'whole number' is zero and the >> positive integers. > > T

Re: documentation error

2005-09-04 Thread tiissa
bill wrote: >>From 3.2 in the Reference Manual "The Standard Type Hierarchy": > > "Integers > These represent elements from the mathematical set of whole > numbers." > > The generally recognized definition of a 'whole number' is zero and the > positive integers. This term is ambiguous as it