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A More about Numbers

The specifications of natural numbers and integers in section 3.6 define abstract mathematical concepts - not the datatypes available on a computer. In this section we compile some ideas how to specify datatypes of programming languages in terms of mathematical concepts introduced in section 3.6: a datatype CARDINAL isomorphic to a subtype of Nat, and a datatype INTEGER isomorphic to a subtype of Int.

  • A.1 A Datatype CARDINAL
  • A.2 A Datatype INTEGER

  • CoFI Note: M-6 -- Version: 0.2 -- 20 July 1999.
    Comments to cofi@informatik.uni-bremen.de

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