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Examples of whole number in a Sentence
since percentages have been rounded off to whole numbers, the total will not be exactly equal to 100%
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All projections are rounded to the nearest whole number.
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Dom Luszczyszyn, The Athletic, 12 Feb. 2025
Roughly one-third of fourth graders could not identify whole numbers nor lines of symmetry in shapes, while nearly half could not determine familiar words using context clues.
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Meira Gebel, Axios, 30 Jan. 2025
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.
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Erica Klarreich, Quanta Magazine, 8 Jan. 2025
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First Known Use
15th century, in the meaning defined above
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The first known use of whole number was
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“Whole number.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/whole%20number. Accessed 21 Feb. 2025.
Kids Definition
whole number
noun
: any of the set of nonnegative integers
also
: integer
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