integers

Cultural  

1. The whole numbers, plus their counterparts less than zero, and zero. The negative integers are those less than zero (–1, –2, –3, and so on); the positive integers are those greater than zero (1, 2, 3, and so on).

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Example Sentences

I shared my love of x and y variables, and of integers, decimal points, and fractions.

From Literature

Quantum computers can be used to solve problems that even supercomputers can only solve after a very long time or not at all, such as breaking down large integers into prime factors.

From Science Daily

These latest projects are primarily driven by a specific continued fraction whose nested integers form the sequence 1, 2, 3,…, Elsner says.

From Scientific American

And the box “What Are Imaginary Numbers?” should have said that rational numbers include the integers, not that “rational numbers are the integers.”

From Scientific American

It is the same with the natural numbers and the integers.

From Scientific American