2 Sep
2011
2 Sep
'11
7:44 a.m.
On Sep 1, 2011, at 4:39 AM, Paul A. Bristow wrote:
I could live with floating, integer (integral?) and rational.
Please not 'integral' -- that's too easily associated with antiderivatives rather than classes of numbers. If you want to make the parts of speech consistent, try 'ratio'. (As for 'floating': Yes, it's an adjective, but it describes the fraction point (as in "floating point number"), not the number itself (as in "rational number"), so using all adjectives wouldn't be consistent anyway. And a 'float' is part of either a pier or a parade.) Josh