Timeline for Math French Words
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| Aug 16, 2016 at 21:06 | comment | added | Willie Wong | @FredRohrer: Ah, I see. It seems I (and possibly also YCor) read into your comment the opposite meaning as you had intended. | |
| Aug 16, 2016 at 19:06 | comment | added | Fred Rohrer | @Willie: That is not what I meant. The meaning of such terms depend on the authors' choice of a definition, often influenced by their "school", and of course sometimes by their language. | |
| Aug 15, 2016 at 22:29 | comment | added | Sándor Kovács | Indeed: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_number | |
| Aug 15, 2016 at 21:18 | comment | added | Willie Wong | @FredRohrer: I wasn't aware there is full consensus on whether the naturals include 0 even in the English language literature. | |
| Aug 15, 2016 at 21:15 | comment | added | Willie Wong | @RobinHouston: "un nombre strictement positif." Same construction for greater "x est strictement superieur a y" (I dropped some accents for ease of typing). | |
| Aug 15, 2016 at 20:53 | comment | added | YCor | @FredRohrer I agree it shouldn't be, but practically it's unfortunately more or less the case | |
| Aug 15, 2016 at 20:35 | comment | added | Fred Rohrer | The meaning of "positive" and of "natural number" is certainly not a matter of language. | |
| Aug 15, 2016 at 20:35 | comment | added | Robin Houston | Fascinating, and helpful. What is the French for “a positive number”? | |
| Aug 15, 2016 at 19:01 | history | answered | Sylvain JULIEN | CC BY-SA 3.0 |