The term "whole number" is used by some people as a non-technical term, trying to avoid words that people might not recognise and relying on intuition and "normal" language.

However, different people mean different things by the term "whole number", so some care must be exercised.

Some of the possible definitions:

${1,2,3,\ldots}$

${0,1,2,3,\ldots}$

${\ldots,-3,-2,-1,0,1,2,3,\ldots}$

These are the integers.

See also Counting Numbers, Natural Numbers, and Integers.

ContinuumHypothesis CountingNumber GeorgCantor MathematicsTaxonomy	CountableSet Factorial			AGentleIntroductionToTimeComplexity AddingFractions AddingRealNumbers AlgebraicNumber AutomaticLink CompositeNumber ContinuedFraction DifferenceOfTwoSquares Eratosthenes Euclid EuclideanAlgorithm FactoringIntegers FermatNumber FermatsLittleTheorem Goldbach ImproperFraction IrrationalNumber MersennePrime PerfectNumber PiIsIrrational PolarRepresentationOfAComplexNumber PrimeNumberTheorem PrimePair Pythagoras RationalNumber RationalisingTheDenominator RealNumber RiemannHypothesis RiemannZetaFunction SieveOfEratosthenes
↓	↓		↓	↓
NaturalNumber			MixedNumber MultiplyingWholeNumbers PrimeNumber RootTwoIsIrrational SquareNumber SubtractingWholeNumbers Surd TranscendentalNumber TypesOfNumber
			↓
		⇌	You are here WholeNumber
			↓
			CountingNumber Integer
↓	↓		↓	↓
(none)	(none)			RealNumber

Local neighbourhood - D3

Last change to this page
Full Page history
Links to this page

Edit this page
(with sufficient authority)
Change password

Recent changes
All pages
Search

Whole Number

Navigation

You are here

Local neighbourhood - D3