Thesaurus results for WHOLE NUMBERS

whole numbers

noun

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as in numbers

a character used to represent a mathematical value since percentages have been rounded off to whole numbers, the total will not be exactly equal to 100%

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Recent Examples of whole numbers Cantor has already challenged what seems like common sense with infinite sets of whole numbers. — Big Think, 25 Nov. 2025 The trick is to choose some number c² so that there are a whole bunch of pairs of whole numbers a and b such that a² + b² = c². — ArsTechnica, 1 June 2026 For instance, mathematicians know that most numbers are irrational, meaning that they can’t be written as a fraction of two whole numbers. — Jordana Cepelewicz, Quanta Magazine, 18 Dec. 2025 The question Price solved—or prompted ChatGPT to solve—concerns special sets of whole numbers, where no number in the set can be evenly divided by any other. — Joseph Howlett, Scientific American, 24 Apr. 2026

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digits

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The high that day was around 92, but the heat index was in the triple digits, the Clarion Ledger, part of the USA TODAY Network, reported.

— Dinah Voyles Pulver, USA Today, 8 July 2026
High temperatures are expected to soar 10 to 15 degrees higher than normal during the hottest month of the year — well into the triple-digits for some locations.

— Mary Gilbert, CNN Money, 8 July 2026

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