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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Those customers have complained online about being unable to use AcuRite Now to rename multiple temperature sensors, difficulties uploading data to weather sites, and the app only reporting temperatures in whole numbers.
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Scharon Harding, ArsTechnica, 15 May 2026
All projections are rounded to the nearest whole number.
—Dom Luszczyszyn, New York Times, 14 May 2026
Estimated earnings are rounded to the nearest whole number and assume the rate remains constant for one year.
—Angelica Leicht, CBS News, 1 May 2026
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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Scharon Harding, ArsTechnica, 15 May 2026
All projections are rounded to the nearest whole number.
—Dom Luszczyszyn, New York Times, 14 May 2026
Estimated earnings are rounded to the nearest whole number and assume the rate remains constant for one year.
—Angelica Leicht, CBS News, 1 May 2026
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
See All Example Sentences for whole number
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“Whole number.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/whole%20number. Accessed 16 May. 2026.
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