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' is zero and the >>>positive integers. >> >>This term is ambiguous as it seems to be used for both natural numbers >>and signed numbers [1]. > > > I cleared this up; now it reads "... set of whole numbers (positive and negative > ones)."
Consider deleting the sentence in which the Python doc tries to define mathematical integers. Integers [In Python] There are three types of integers: -- --Bryan -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list