Re: Deep Thoughts # 7: A New Kind of Mathematics

From: David Bandel (dwb1729_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 06/14/04 

Date: 14 Jun 2004 07:15:53 -0700

Natural numbers were originally intended and continue to be intended
by mathematicians to mean the "counting" numbers not including zero.
You hardly deal with zero in number theory. You deal with the
"positive integers." It's considered unfortunate that the standard is
not universally agreed upon.

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