Talk:Proper divisors: Difference between revisions
→Shouldn't it be "The proper divisors of a STRICTLY positive integer N are those numbers..."?: Nope
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To my knowledge, "positive integer" means every whole number not less than zero whereas "strictly positive integer" means every whole number not less than one. Better yet, we could replace "positive integer N" with a completely unambiguous phrase such as those that I've used in my previous sentence. As it stands, the task description could be misread as desiring the use of zero. --[[User:ReeceGoding|ReeceGoding]] ([[User talk:ReeceGoding|talk]]) 20:57, 10 June 2020 (UTC)
: From [[wp:Integer#Order-theoretic_properties|Wikipedia]], quote:
<blockquote>An integer is positive if it is greater than zero and negative if it is less than zero. Zero is defined as neither negative nor positive.</blockquote>
: so, no the task verbiage need not contain the word "STRICTLY" as zero is not a positive integer. --[[User:Thundergnat|Thundergnat]] ([[User talk:Thundergnat|talk]]) 00:02, 11 June 2020 (UTC)
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