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Re:Poll: Is “-3” a whole number? by throwaway000002 on Monday September 05, 2016 @01:16PM (#12431297)
Never met a whole -3 pizzas, nor a whole 0 pizzas for that matter.

That should be enough for you to deduce what I believe whole numbers are.

I should add, for a mathematical audience, I'd be careful, because of possible confusion, and insist on saying positive integers, and non-negative integers in the case of what I'd call the natural numbers.

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Re:Poll: Is “-3” a whole number? by victorhugo31337 on Monday September 05, 2016 @01:20PM (#12431322)
Pragmatically I believe you are correct. I think negative whole numbers and zero are also a subset of "whole numbers" along with positive whole numbers.
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Re:Poll: Is “-3” a whole number? by jungletek on Monday September 05, 2016 @09:00PM (#12433083)
I believe you meant "real numbers" rather than your quoted "whole numbers" in your second sentence.
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