- From: Henri Sivonen <hsivonen@iki.fi>
- Date: Fri, 7 Apr 2006 15:00:55 +0300
On Apr 7, 2006, at 14:38, Anne van Kesteren wrote: >> The test case is wrong according to the current working draft, >> because the value of repeat-max is '0' in the test case and only >> positive integers are allowed values (and other values are ignored). > > Why is 0 not a positive integer? Because zero is neither positive nor negative. http://mathworld.wolfram.com/Zero.html http://mathworld.wolfram.com/PositiveInteger.html > Don't you have positive and negative 0's? Only in floating point values as a technical detail--not in pure math or in two's complement digital integers. -- Henri Sivonen hsivonen at iki.fi http://hsivonen.iki.fi/
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