All natural numbers are also whole numbers, true or false

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amistre64 · Answer

what is the difference between the sets?

amistre64 · Answer

some textbooks do not define a difference, others say there is one slight difference

nincompoop · Answer

existence of zero

nincompoop · Answer

but we refer to that as 'counting numbers' lol silly mathematicians

amistre64 · Answer

ive seen some texts that take the ambiguity out of it with:

nonnegative integers  and positive integers

anonymous · Answer

It depends, many people do count 0 as a natural number, but MOST do not. So for most HS text book, the answer is NO, all whole numbers are not natural numbers and the reason is 0 is a whole number but not a natural number.

amistre64 · Answer

the question is:  All natural numbers are also whole numbers

is the set of natural number contained within the set of whole numbers?

   1,2,3,4,5,6,....   naturals
0,1,2,3,4,5,6,...    wholes

therefore all natural numbers are whole numbers

anonymous · Answer

false, whole number are 0 and up, and natural number are 1 and up (whole #s have the zero but natural #s don't)