Bug#210879: constitution.txt: fractured developers
Colin Watson wrote:
> I only did one year of maths at Cambridge, but in the conventionally
> agreed terminology there the set of natural numbers was definitely not
> defined to include zero. Peano's first axiom is "1 is a natural number",
> not "0 is a natural number".
It's an Emacs vs. vi issue.
> I think you're confusing "different interpretation of disagreed
> terminology" with "wrong". The membership of zero in the set of natural
> numbers is a matter of disagreed terminology.
Mathematics is nothing but terminology, but some terminology is so
awkward that it's just wrong (maybe not false, but still wrong 8-).
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