On 26/04/2013 1:15 p.m., Ethan Furman wrote:
Lots of counting systems wrap: seconds, minutes, hours, days of week, days of month, days of year, millimeters, inches, etc., etc.
But we don't disagree on which is the first minute of an hour.
We still apply ordering to them, and talk about 15 <whatevers> being less than 42 <whatevers>.
When we do that, we're using cardinal numbers (how many), not ordinal numbers (what order). -- Greg _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
