[nvy]

>Computer integers aren't the real numbers you learned about in gradeschool

Why would anyone think computer integers are real numbers? Anyone who's given it a modicum of thought will know intuitively they're a subset of "real life" integers, not reals.

>using 0,x is a perfectly reasonable and intuitive way of defining things.

I would argue it's neither reasonable nor intuitive. If you want to create some special data type then have at it, but if the behavior of `int` doesn't approximate the behavior of IRL integers, call your data type something else.

[nullc]

x+1 is sometimes less than x ... is "IRL" integers? Division of any integer by any number (other than zero) is an integer ... is "IRL" integers?

Seems to me that ship has sailed!

[nvy]

Are you unfamiliar with the meaning of the term "approximation"?