Cassidy to Ask ScienceEnglish • edit-21 year agoThis might be a silly question, but why do people say "non-negative integers" when they could just say "whole numbers"?message-square4fedilinkarrow-up123arrow-down11
arrow-up122arrow-down1message-squareThis might be a silly question, but why do people say "non-negative integers" when they could just say "whole numbers"?Cassidy to Ask ScienceEnglish • edit-21 year agomessage-square4fedilink
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish55•1 year agoNegative integers are also whole. You may be thinking of “natural numbers”, and the reason is that there’s no universal rule on whether to include zero or not.
Negative integers are also whole.
You may be thinking of “natural numbers”, and the reason is that there’s no universal rule on whether to include zero or not.
OK, thanks!