Path: csiph.com!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Tim Rentsch Newsgroups: comp.lang.c Subject: Re: Integral types and own type definitions (was Re: Suggested method for returning a string from a C program?) Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2025 13:23:25 -0700 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 21 Message-ID: <86zfh8j1vm.fsf@linuxsc.com> References: <868qp1ra5f.fsf@linuxsc.com> <20250319115550.0000676f@yahoo.com> <20250319201903.00005452@yahoo.com> <86r02roqdq.fsf@linuxsc.com> <86o6xpk8sn.fsf@linuxsc.com> <20250325011327.41@kylheku.com> <20250325131110.000056bd@yahoo.com> <86bjtpjp22.fsf@linuxsc.com> <20250325190958.0000534d@yahoo.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Injection-Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2025 21:23:26 +0100 (CET) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="dc97818a680e22f6747ff94516233a05"; logging-data="62823"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX18T76VIqB8pZW9agj283kiOFMoKltVBq1s=" User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.4 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:+6DPxTYkQg5GyNh4hh1XmItflSE= sha1:8GPR+E3G74LlTCY2yPvwXAOLfdc= Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.c:391634 Michael S writes: > On Tue, 25 Mar 2025 05:02:45 -0700 > Tim Rentsch wrote: > >> Michael S writes: [...] >>> Wouldn't the term 'whole numbers' be preferred in everyday English? >> >> "Whole numbers" are all non-negative. >> >> "Integers" include values less than zero. > > Sounds like English everyday use differs from two other languages that > I know relatively well in both of which "whole" numbers include > negatives. Addendum: doing a web search for "whole numbers" turned up several pages that gave a definition for the term, and in all cases the set of numbers identified included all and only the non-negative integers (typical definition was "counting numbers plus zero").