How to Use integer in a Sentence
integer
noun- Both 10 and -10 are integers.
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They can be written in the form 2n – 1 where n is an integer.
—Valencia Prashad, New York Times, 26 Jan. 2018
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Next, arrange the nodes in a circle and label each one with an integer.
—Leila Sloman, Quanta Magazine, 28 Jan. 2026
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On top of that, the ratios of those intervals are not neat integers.
—Chris Lee, Ars Technica, 2 June 2018
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When there are two or more unknowns, as is the case here, only the integers are studied.
—David Grossman, Popular Mechanics, 9 Sep. 2019
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With Gaussian integers, the whole notion of what counts as prime changed.
—Quanta Magazine, 1 Nov. 2023
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Don’t hold out hope for integer scaling coming to older graphics chips, though.
—Brad Chacos, PCWorld, 3 Sep. 2019
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Six-seven is just a lasso looped by fate around two adjacent integers on the number line.
—Ian Bogost, The Atlantic, 12 Dec. 2025
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So the collection of all fractions of two integers are countable.
—Steven Strogatz, Quanta Magazine, 19 Apr. 2023
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This means the distance from one integer to the next is a difference by a factor of 10.
—Daniel Wolfe, Washington Post, 9 Feb. 2023
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There is no such thing as half a hole, the topologist would note, and the number of holes only changes stepwise in integers.
—Dennis Overbye and Sewell Chan, New York Times, 4 Oct. 2016
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An irrational number is one that cannot be expressed by a fraction of integers, or whole numbers.
—Jay Bennett, Popular Mechanics, 11 May 2018
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Then the code turns the color code integer into something that makes the change in the Unity engine.
—Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 5 Aug. 2022
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In other words, one of the best six-cylinder engines in the history of integers greater than five, but less than seven.
—John Pearley Huffman, Car and Driver, 20 Feb. 2020
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Take the set of integers {…, −2, −1, 0, 1, 2, …}.
—Quanta Magazine, 29 Apr. 2026
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Each p-adic integer is defined by following an infinite path up the tower.
—Quanta Magazine, 19 Oct. 2020
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Cracking a key requires breaking down one of these integers into its prime-number factors.
—IEEE Spectrum, 16 Apr. 2024
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Start with an abstract generalization of the integers called a ring.
—Konstantin Kakaes, Quanta Magazine, 20 May 2026
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Stuck in the Middle Erdős knew that any set of integers must contain a smaller, sum-free subset.
—Leila Sloman, Wired News, 29 June 2025
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Lenstra next imagined all the integers as an infinite set of grid points, known in mathematics as a lattice.
—Quanta Magazine, 29 Jan. 2024
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In the case of the integers, the prime ideals are sets of multiples corresponding to each of the prime numbers, along with zero.
—Konstantin Kakaes, Quanta Magazine, 20 May 2026
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Cantor’s approach was to treat a series of numbers, such as the integers, as a complete infinite set.
—Quanta Magazine, 29 Apr. 2026
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The integers — all the positive and negative counting numbers — don’t form a field.
—Quanta Magazine, 11 Feb. 2019
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In this case, each doll is an integer added to a fraction whose denominator is the next smallest figurine in the sequence.
—Amory Tillinghast-Raby, Scientific American, 2 June 2023
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For integer workloads, branch prediction and prefetching have been made more accurate and some caches enlarged.
—Peter Bright, Ars Technica, 6 Nov. 2018
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And the sterile nature of code is exactly what slang—a language that lives in the thin threshold between integers—was designed to elude.
—Caleb Madison, The Atlantic, 28 Oct. 2023
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The scale used to measure earthquakes is logarithmic, so each integer is a factor of 10.
—Gary Solar, The Conversation, 5 Apr. 2024
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For example, the even integers form a subgroup within the integers.
—Leila Sloman, Quanta Magazine, 6 Sep. 2024
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Type checking involves assigning a data type—such as an integer, string, character, or float, to name a few—to a value.
—IEEE Spectrum, 30 Mar. 2023
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This means that the vector location of the object always consists of components that are integers.
—Adam Rogers, WIRED, 10 Apr. 2018
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