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| - A natural number is a positive (or nonnegative) integer. All the counting numbers, (1, 2, 3,...) are called natural numbers. Other possible names for the same type of object include whole number and counting number. The usage of these terms is not universally agreed upon, however, as it is possible for any of them to include or exclude zero from consideration.
- The natural number is a species of number grown tMiddle East. The greatest share of natural numbers is produced on plantations. The natural numbers were known to the Arabs, who grew them for medicinal use. They were referred to by Thābit ibn Qurra, an Arab mathematician, as "those things that, when added to, get bigger."
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| - The natural number is a species of number grown tMiddle East. The greatest share of natural numbers is produced on plantations. The natural numbers were known to the Arabs, who grew them for medicinal use. They were referred to by Thābit ibn Qurra, an Arab mathematician, as "those things that, when added to, get bigger." By 1600, four strains of the natural numbers had been developed. These were the strain known to us today, one in which 3 + 3 = weird 6 on Fridays, the kind where 1 + 1 = 1 when you're tfyuhrstytgdtsgdstsrtytytyrtrysrthtrhrhthtxhtfhtftrtxhrthrtshrhtthrhxt and, of course, the infamous "uncontrollably raspberry" variety. By 1954, all of these varieties but the modern one had died out. In 1996, Monsanto Corporation developed a line of genetically modified numbers, sometimes called "artificial numbers." Anti-gene groups such as Monsanto + Numbers = No! have called for mandatory labeling of GM numbers, fearing they pose a threat to things there is a quantity of. In particular, they claim that Monsanto could achieve control over the world's money supply indirectly through its control of number.
- A natural number is a positive (or nonnegative) integer. All the counting numbers, (1, 2, 3,...) are called natural numbers. Other possible names for the same type of object include whole number and counting number. The usage of these terms is not universally agreed upon, however, as it is possible for any of them to include or exclude zero from consideration. The set of natural numbers, commonly denoted by ,natural numbers are 1,2,3,4,5,......the natural number doesnot have an ending and can be axiomatically defined by the Peano axioms. One way of constructing the natural numbers (or, more precisely, a sequence of objects that behave like the natural numbers) is through an iterative process starting from the empty set. See Wikipedia:Natural number for more information. Natural numbers arise naturally (hence the name) from counting objects. Because of this fact, the elementary operations of arithmetic (addition, subtraction, multiplication and division) can be described in intuitively appealing ways for natural numbers before being extended to larger sets of numbers.
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