EML<numberType>

[David Blankman]

Somehow the documentation for <numberType> doesn't show up on the web.

A number of you have wondered about the enumerations of "natural, whole, 
integer, real", including some of you with backgrounds in mathematics 
and statistics.

Here are the definitions:

The first type of number is the first type you ever learned about:   the 
counting, or "natural" numbers:  1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6,...

The next type is the "whole" numbers, which is the natural numbers 
together with zero:  0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6,...

Then come the "integers", which are zero, the natural numbers, and the 
negatives of the naturals:  ..., -6, -5, -4, -3, -2, -1, 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 
5, 6,...

For more information see:

<http://www.purplemath.com/modules/numtypes.htm>
http://www.purplemath.com/modules/numtypes.htm

-- 
David E. Blankman
Database Integration Developer
Long Term Ecological Research Network Office
University of New Mexico
801 University, SE #104
Albuquerque, NM 87106
(505) 272-7346 / (505) 272-7080 FAX

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