- plural of whole number.
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The whole numbers are also called the positive integers (or the nonnegative integers, if zero is included).
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Astronomical-difficulty scores, which are combined on each event with an execution score out of 10, allow Biles to win competitions by whole numbers as most of her peers fight for half-tenths.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 23, 2024
Resonances occur naturally, when planets happen to have orbital periods that are the ratio of whole numbers.
From Salon ● Feb. 6, 2024
But if it checks out, it will go some way towards taming the randomness of prime numbers, whole numbers that cannot be divided evenly by any number except themselves or 1.
From Scientific American ● Nov. 15, 2022
A third of American adults can’t do two-step math problems with whole numbers or handle common fractions or percentages, such as ¾ and 50 percent.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 15, 2022
Notes with a close relationship have frequencies that can be written as a ratiol2 of two small whole numbers; the smaller the numbers, the more closely related the notes are.
From "Understanding Basic Music Theory" by Catherine Schmidt-Jones and Russel Jones
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