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[–] 85 points 1 year ago* (10 children)

Actually, those are not the same. Natural numbers include zero, positive integers do not. She shoud definately use 'big naturals'.

Edit: although you could argue that it doesnt matter as 0 is arguably neither big nor large

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  • [–] 67 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Natural numbers only include zero if you define it so in the beginning of your book/paper/whatever. Otherwise it's ambiguous and you should be ashamed of yourself.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago

    Fair enough, as a computer scientist I got tought to use the Neumann definition, which includes zero, unless stated differently by the author. But for general mathematics, I guess it's used both ways.

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  • [–] 49 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Natural numbers include zero

    That is a divisive opinion and not actually a fact

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Yeah, it's a matter of convention rather than opinion really, but among US academia the convention is to exclude 0 from the naturals. I think in France they include it.

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    [–] 48 points 1 year ago

    Also in an aqueous environment, they become floating point values.

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  • [–] 23 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Gandalf's large positive integers

    Like that?

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  • [–] 22 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Large nonnegative numbers*

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Thanks for the comment - - I will fight for recognizing zero as a natural number

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    In mathematics, the natural numbers are the numbers 0, 1, 2, 3, and so on, possibly excluding 0.[1] Some start counting with 0, defining the natural numbers as the non-negative integers 0, 1, 2, 3, ..., while others start with 1, defining them as the positive integers 1, 2, 3, ... .[a] Some authors acknowledge both definitions whenever convenient.[2] Sometimes, the whole numbers are the natural numbers as well as zero. In other cases, the whole numbers refer to all of the integers, including negative integers.[3] The counting numbers are another term for the natural numbers, particularly in primary education, and are ambiguous as well although typically start at 1.

    Sauce

    So it is undefined behavior, great

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  • [–] 22 points 1 year ago

    Big Naturals Are More Pronounced

    ftfy

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  • [–] 18 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    I don't care if they're big, as long as they're real

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  • [–] 18 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Don't get me started on the unnatural and supernatural numbers.

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  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Sound made up, like imaginary numbers.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago* (1 child)

    I mean all numbers are made up when you think about it.

    Also unrelated but natural numbers are closed under multiplication (by pure coincidence) while imaginary numbers are not.

    This means natural numbers make worse examples when learning about sets.

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  • [–] 15 points 1 year ago

    This actually got a chuckle out of me. Prob the first number related joke I've laughed at.

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  • [–] 11 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    I like naturals, but more than a mouthful is kind of a waste. ;-)

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  • [–] 11 points 1 year ago

    That's true OP, "big naturals" are indeed very pronounced.

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    I googled "Big Naturals". Result number 16 was this:

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Natural Numbers ≠ Integers though.

    In spite of that, I'm chuckling. Math can be funny sometimes 😂

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  • [–] 18 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Positive integers are (a subset of) natural numbers

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Why a subset? They're the same thing right? I guess it could be about the zero?

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    you answered your own question

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Well what I learned in school was that zero was both positive and negative. I knew some people consider the natural numbers don't include zero, but I didn't know for some zero isn't even positive.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago

    I just say “big’uns”

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago

    big badonka-donkadonks

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago

    we like to see those Double negative intergers.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    Why, would anyone at all think about something else?

    /s

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    Be glad it isn't Positive Integers Venti

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago
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