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[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I have been taught and everyone around me accepts that Natural numbers start from 1 and Whole numbers start from 0

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Oh no, are we calling non-negative integers "whole numbers" now? There are proposals to change bad naming in mathematics, but I hope this is not one of them.

On the other hand, changing integer to whole number makes perfect sense.