whole number

as in number
a character used to represent a mathematical value since percentages have been rounded off to whole numbers, the total will not be exactly equal to 100%

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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. 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 See All Example Sentences for whole number
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Noun
  • 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
  • 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
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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
  • 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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