whole number
Also called counting number. one of the positive integers or zero; any of the numbers (0, 1, 2, 3, …).
(loosely) integer (def. 1).
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How to use whole number in a sentence
It’s two over 10, or one over five, we can write it as a whole number over a whole number.
The Coach Who Led the U.S. Math Team Back to the Top | Max G. Levy | February 16, 2021 | Quanta MagazineLast time, you were introduced to the two-player Game of Attrition, where each player started with a whole number of “power points.”
Can You Cut The Square … Into More Squares? | Zach Wissner-Gross | January 8, 2021 | FiveThirtyEightFor that, we are measuring the grain weight, the moisture content, the length and width of an ear of corn, and just a whole number of metrics like that surrounding a crop.
Finding the ground truth about crop yields | Katie McLean | December 18, 2020 | MIT Technology ReviewYou can construct infinitely many different Grassmannians by starting with distinct pairs of whole numbers.
A Mathematician’s Unanticipated Journey Through the Physical World | Kevin Hartnett | December 16, 2020 | Quanta MagazineFor this to be a whole number, either both factors had to be even or both factors had to be odd.
“Those two weeks that you wait it out are consequential for a whole number of people,” he said.
Fringe Factor: House Republicans Are Just Like 9/11 Heroes | Caitlin Dickson | October 6, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTClassify each leukocyte seen, and calculate what percentage each variety is of the whole number classified.
A Manual of Clinical Diagnosis | James Campbell ToddThe whole number in day schools, therefore, is probably not less than 1,200.
Their whole number was two hundred, who descended upon Ardis, which is the top of Mount Armon.
A Philosophical Dictionary, Volume 1 (of 10) | Franois-Marie Arouet (AKA Voltaire)The whole number of stadia from Physcus to the Mæander, along the road to Ephesus, is 1180 stadia.
It must be within the mark to state that at least 15,000 persons—a fourth of the whole number—perished in those dreadful days.
The Cradle of Mankind | W.A. Wigram
British Dictionary definitions for whole number
an integer
a natural number
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Scientific definitions for whole number
A member of the set of positive integers and zero.
A positive integer.
An integer.
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