- From: Anne van Kesteren <fora@annevankesteren.nl>
- Date: Fri, 07 Apr 2006 16:16:53 +0200
Quoting Henri Sivonen <hsivonen at iki.fi>: >>> 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. Fair enough. -- Anne van Kesteren <http://annevankesteren.nl/>
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