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Recent Examples of whole number
But since the size of a set is always a whole number, an increase of 1/3 is often inconsequential.
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Leila Sloman, Wired News, 29 June 2025
This has been known since the 1870s, when the German mathematician Georg Cantor proved that the set of real numbers (all the numbers on the number line) is larger than the set of whole numbers, even though both sets are infinite.
—Gregory Barber, Quanta Magazine, 20 June 2025
Primes are whole numbers that are greater than 1 and are divisible by only 1 and themselves.
—Rachel Crowell, Scientific American, 16 June 2025
But the Emmys rules dictate that when a category has under 20 submissions (but over eight,) the number of nominees will be whatever number of submissions the category receives divided by four, and rounded to the nearest whole number.
—Marcus Jones, IndieWire, 28 Apr. 2025
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Leila Sloman, Wired News, 29 June 2025
This has been known since the 1870s, when the German mathematician Georg Cantor proved that the set of real numbers (all the numbers on the number line) is larger than the set of whole numbers, even though both sets are infinite.
—Gregory Barber, Quanta Magazine, 20 June 2025
Primes are whole numbers that are greater than 1 and are divisible by only 1 and themselves.
—Rachel Crowell, Scientific American, 16 June 2025
But the Emmys rules dictate that when a category has under 20 submissions (but over eight,) the number of nominees will be whatever number of submissions the category receives divided by four, and rounded to the nearest whole number.
—Marcus Jones, IndieWire, 28 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for whole number
Noun
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The robbers struck in broad daylight, while the museum was open, and targeted a specific number of antique jewels.—
Diane Brady,
Fortune,
20 Oct. 2025
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The shake-up leaves an unusual number of spots open on the party’s Central Committee, which began its term in 2022 with 205 members and 171 non-voting alternates.—
Simone McCarthy,
CNN Money,
20 Oct. 2025
Noun
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Despite double- and sometimes triple-digit year-on-year growth, and repeat customers accounting for 37 percent of the business every month, the break even point remained elusive.—
Lily Templeton,
Footwear News,
14 Oct. 2025
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As one of the 27 specified sub-areas the bank will be focusing on, quantum computing has seen gains as much as triple digits over the past month.—
Jaures Yip,
CNBC,
13 Oct. 2025
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“Whole number.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/whole%20number. Accessed 22 Oct. 2025.
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