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Status of PEP's?

Steve Arnold sarnold at arnolds.dhs.org
Mon Mar 4 22:50:18 EST 2002 
On Mon, 2002-03-04 at 19:33, Paul Rubin wrote:

> David Eppstein <eppstein at ics.uci.edu> writes:
> > While we're picking minor nits, I would consider the natural numbers to 
> > include zero.
> 
> Usually the term "natural numbers" don't include zero.
> http://mathworld.wolfram.com/NaturalNumber.html

Yay, somebody found mathworld (or a text book).  Natural numbers are the
counting numbers (positive integers).  Zero is not in the set of Natural
numbers (it is only used as a place holder).  Now if you said Whole
numbers, or non-negative integers, that would have been entirely
different.  Isn't it nice to have children spread out from 3rd grade to
7th grade?  I love helping with math homework...

Steve
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