whole numbers

1. 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.

Notes

The whole numbers are also called the positive integers (or the nonnegative integers, if zero is included).

Example Sentences

Meyer had prepared me for the coming storm, when Beethoven should hear of leaving out three whole numbers of the first act.

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Whole numbers of musical reviews were devoted to the study and discussion of his art in all its ramifications.

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Construct a subtracting magic square with the first sixteen whole numbers that shall be "associated" by subtraction.

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Every reader will have perceived that certain whole numbers are evidently impossible.

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My remarks throughout must be understood to apply to whole numbers, because fractional soldiers are not of much use in war.

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