This might be a silly question, but why do people say "non-negative integers" when they could just say "whole numbers"?
This might be a silly question, but why do people say "non-negative integers" when they could just say "whole numbers"?
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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.
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