CONCEPT OF NATURAL, INTEGERS, FRACTION, AND WHOLE NUMBERS -
As per the earlier discussion, we have learned about natural numbers, whole numbers, Integers, and Fraction. What exactly has been discussed below it's just a revision. So, go through the entire content and refresh yourself and moreover below content will definitely help you out to understand the further advanced stages of mathematics.
1) Natural Numbers –
The counting numbers are called natural numbers, thus 1, 2, 3, 4, 5,……….., etc are natural numbers
2) Whole Numbers –
All counting numbers together with 0 form the collection of all whole numbers, thus, 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6,……………, etc., are whole numbers. We can say every natural number will be considered as a whole number. But, zero ‘0’ is a whole number which is not a natural number.
3) Integers –
All whole numbers and the negatives of all counting numbers form the collection of all integers, thus, ……., -6, -5, -4, -3, -2, -1, 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6,………………form the collection of all integers
4) Fractions –
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The numbers of the form -------, where x & y are natural numbers, are
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called fractions.
8 15 34 41 47
as example, ------, ------, ------, ------, -------
15 22 37 22 105