- 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
Each pair of planets completes their orbits in times that are the ratios of whole numbers, allowing the planets to align and exert a gravitational push and pull on the other during their orbit.
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
In love with whole numbers, the Pythagoreans believed all things could be derived from them, certainly all other numbers.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
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