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minus-squareAppleMango@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9arrow-down1·8 months agoI have been taught and everyone around me accepts that Natural numbers start from 1 and Whole numbers start from 0
minus-squarebaseless_discourse@mander.xyzlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4arrow-down1·edit-28 months agoOh no, are we calling non-negative integers “whole numbers” now? There are proposals to change bad naming in mathematics, but I hope this is not one of them. On the other hand, changing integer to whole number makes perfect sense.
I have been taught and everyone around me accepts that Natural numbers start from 1 and Whole numbers start from 0
Oh no, are we calling non-negative integers “whole numbers” now? There are proposals to change bad naming in mathematics, but I hope this is not one of them.
On the other hand, changing integer to whole number makes perfect sense.