Changes between Version 1 and Version 2 of olivine/dsl/types/core

Timestamp:

May 21, 2020 10:41:46 PM (4 years ago)

Author:

jonathan

Comment:

Introduce reals, rename "whole number" to "integer"

olivine/dsl/types/core

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-== whole number ==
-Whole numbers are numbers without fractions.  They can be positive or negative but cannot have a decimal point.
+== integer ==
+Integers are whole numbers, they are numbers without fractions.  They can be positive or negative but cannot have a decimal point.  For example, the most important whole number in all of the universe is:
+
+{{{
+42
+}}}
+
+== real ==
+Reals are rational numbers, they are numbers that may have decimal points.  They can be positive or negative and although are compatible with whole number values you must always specify a decimal point to explicitly express a `real` value.  Here are examples of reals (for reals!):
+
+{{{
+42.0
+
+7.8
+
+-23.82
+}}}
+
 
 == list ==