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| BEFORE YOU EDIT THIS PAGE, PLEASE READ COMMENT AT END. | BEFORE YOU EDIT THIS PAGE, PLEASE READ THE COMMENT BLOCK AT THE VERY END WHERE THERE ARE REFERENCES TO RESPECTED MATHEMATICAL WORKS THAT USE "WHOLE NUMBER" IN THREE DIFFERENT SENSES. | ||
| "WHOLE NUMBER" IS, UNFORTUNATLY, NOT USED CONSISTENTLY IN MATHEMATICAL LITERATURE, AND YOU CANNOT ASSUME THE DEFINITION YOU LEARNED IS SCHOOL IS THE SOLE CORRECT DEFINITION. | |||
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| '''Whole numbers''' may variously refer to: | '''Whole numbers''' may variously refer to: | ||
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*the positive ]s (1, 2, 3, ...) | ||
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*the non-negative ]s (0, 1, 2, 3, ...) | ||
| *all ]s ..., -3, -2, -1, 0, 1, 2, 3, ... | *all ]s (..., -3, -2, -1, 0, 1, 2, 3, ...) | ||
| <!-- Please do not introduce the term "natural number" to "explain" whole number, because "natural number" itself has various interpretations by authoritative mathematicians, so you're just making this article more complicated than it needs to be and linking for linking's sake. The above descriptions are very short and clear: "integer" has a single meaning in mathematics. Let's try to keep this page as short and clear and unambiguous as possible.--> | |||
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Revision as of 04:33, 3 May 2014
Whole numbers may variously refer to:
- the positive integers (1, 2, 3, ...)
- the non-negative integers (0, 1, 2, 3, ...)
- all integers (..., -3, -2, -1, 0, 1, 2, 3, ...)
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