integers and reals

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From: Andy Cheese
Date: Mon, 18 Apr 1988 16:44

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My own intuition, having a maths degree, is that integers are real numbers,
it's just that you can represent integers in a machine in general. But on
the otherhand i would like to see built-in predicates keep their "usual"
(QP, SICStus, etc) meanings.
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From: abc@cs.nott.ac.uk (Andy Cheese)
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Subject: integers and reals
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Date: 18 Apr 88 16:44:45 GMT
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