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natural number
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natural number
any of the numbers 0,1,2,3,4,… that can be used to count the members of a set; the nonnegative integers

(mathematics)natural number - An integer greater than or equal to zero. A natural number is an isomorphism class of a finite set.


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Elementary number theory is concerned with the structures and relationships of natural numbers.
Beginning with natural numbers and covering the realms of infinity from prime numbers to parallel lines, the authors explore how mathematicians have tried to grasp the ungraspable, Profiles of individuals range from Pythagoras, who theorized about irrational numbers, to Georg Cantor, who proved that infinity can come in different sizes.
These are off-the-shelf grammars of standard and common phrases such as times, dates and natural numbers.
 
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