[Haskell-cafe] Re: Why 'round' does not just round numbers ?

ajb at spamcop.net ajb at spamcop.net
Mon Oct 27 21:29:34 EDT 2008


G'day all.

Quoting Daniel Fischer <daniel.is.fischer at web.de>:

> Who does such horrible things?
> Repeat after me: 1 is NOT a prime. Never, under no circumstances.

The definition of "prime" is well-understood standard terminology, but
that doesn't escape the fact that it's arbitrary and human-defined.

I'll bet you insist on the non-triviality axiom for fields, too.

Cheers,
Andrew Bromage


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