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whole numbers


The set of familiar numbers (0, 1, 2, 3, 4, and so on) sometimes called natural numbers or counting numbers. When they are called counting numbers, zero is not included.	1
‡ The whole numbers are also called the positive integers (or the nonnegative integers, if zero is included).	2

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