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OpenStudy (anonymous):

what are natural numbers

OpenStudy (anonymous):

1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15,16 ♥

OpenStudy (daniellelovee):

any number up from 1

OpenStudy (anonymous):

Yep lol

OpenStudy (daniellelovee):

lol you were correct you just forgot and infinity symbol or something showing that it doesn't stop at 16

OpenStudy (anonymous):

oh yeah..Sorry!

OpenStudy (mkapad01):

you can say they are counting numbers/whole numbers

OpenStudy (anonymous):

The numbers that nature uses to count. If there are some trees in a park then for nature only those trees matter that exist; i.e absent trees are not countable. hence zero is not a natural number as it denotes absence. While you can "have" one tree you cannot 'have' no trees. Similarly one tree is one whole tree, half trees are dead trees (mostly) so nature does not care for absence or for parts of a whole (fraction). Thus all "whole" numbers beginning from one and going on till infinity (infinity: means no finite or reachable end) constitute natural numbers.

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