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Aubrey Jaffer wrote: >> Another possibility is to use the word "natural" for nonnegative >> integers: >> >> exact 64.bit natural-number #nA:natural-64 >> exact 32.bit natural-number #nA:natural-32 >> exact 16.bit natural-number #nA:natural-16 >> exact 8.bit natural-number #nA:natural-8 bear wrote: > Nix. Not what mathematicians mean by "natural numbers." Guaranteed to > cause confusion when someone presumes that he can't store zero, or is > allowed to divide by something because it can't be zero, etc. I suspect that you have natural numbers and whole numbers confused. The natural numbers are the non-negative integers, and the whole numbers are the positive integers. > "Nonnegative" is the word that means what you want in mathematics, "Non-negative integer" and "natural number" are synonymous. -- Bradd W. Szonye http://www.szonye.com/bradd