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since percentages have been rounded off to whole numbers, the total will not be exactly equal to 100%
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In 1640, Pierre de Fermat conjectured that there are infinitely many primes that can be formulated by squaring two whole numbers and adding them together.
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Joseph Howlett, WIRED, 19 Jan. 2025
Two and a half millennia ago, the Pythagoreans held as a core belief that every number is the ratio of two whole numbers.
—Erica Klarreich, Quanta Magazine, 8 Jan. 2025
All projections are rounded to the nearest whole number.
—Dom Luszczyszyn, The Athletic, 22 Jan. 2025
Earthquake magnitudes are measured on a logarithmic scale, meaning each whole number increase represents a tenfold increase in power of the seismic waves, resulting in approximately 31.6 times more energy released.
—Michael Gfoeller and David H. Rundell, Newsweek, 15 Jan. 2025
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Joseph Howlett, WIRED, 19 Jan. 2025
Two and a half millennia ago, the Pythagoreans held as a core belief that every number is the ratio of two whole numbers.
—Erica Klarreich, Quanta Magazine, 8 Jan. 2025
All projections are rounded to the nearest whole number.
—Dom Luszczyszyn, The Athletic, 22 Jan. 2025
Earthquake magnitudes are measured on a logarithmic scale, meaning each whole number increase represents a tenfold increase in power of the seismic waves, resulting in approximately 31.6 times more energy released.
—Michael Gfoeller and David H. Rundell, Newsweek, 15 Jan. 2025
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“Whole number.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/whole%20number. Accessed 10 Feb. 2025.
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