Cassidy@infosec.pub to Ask Science@lemmy.worldEnglish · edit-210 months agoThis might be a silly question, but why do people say "non-negative integers" when they could just say "whole numbers"?message-squaremessage-square4fedilinkarrow-up123arrow-down11
arrow-up122arrow-down1message-squareThis might be a silly question, but why do people say "non-negative integers" when they could just say "whole numbers"?Cassidy@infosec.pub to Ask Science@lemmy.worldEnglish · edit-210 months agomessage-square4fedilink
minus-squareSerdanlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up55·10 months agoNegative integers are also whole. You may be thinking of “natural numbers”, and the reason is that there’s no universal rule on whether to include zero or not.
Negative integers are also whole.
You may be thinking of “natural numbers”, and the reason is that there’s no universal rule on whether to include zero or not.
OK, thanks!