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Number is eternal

Number is eternal

Posted May 14, 2007 7:22 UTC (Mon) by xoddam (subscriber, #2322)
In reply to: How Debian packages a number by dw
Parent article: How Debian packages a number

All that happened in February was that the attention of the technical public was inexorably drawn to its representation in hexadecimal.

The number has always existed -- look back at your old mathematics text books and check the definition of the set of natural numbers. It's there!


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