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Are natural numbers whole numbers

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Answered by GPT-4o mini
Yes, natural numbers are a subset of whole numbers. Natural numbers are typically defined as the set of positive integers starting from 1 (i.e., 1, 2, 3, ...). In some contexts, natural numbers can also include 0 (0, 1, 2, 3, ...), but traditionally, they start from 1.

Whole numbers, on the other hand, include all natural numbers as well as 0 (i.e., 0, 1, 2, 3, ...). Therefore, all natural numbers are indeed whole numbers, but not all whole numbers are natural numbers if we consider natural numbers starting from 1.

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