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 numbersPrime numbers, those divisible only by 1 and themselves, are the atoms of arithmetic; all other whole numbers are built from them.—Quanta Magazine,
9 Sep. 2026 Poll results are rounded to whole numbers and may not total 100%.—
Zachary Hansen,
AJC.com,
25 Aug. 2026 The trick is to choose some number c² so that there are a whole bunch of pairs of whole numbers a and b such that a² + b² = c².—ArsTechnica,
1 June 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 Cantor has already challenged what seems like common sense with infinite sets of whole numbers.—Big Think,
25 Nov. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for whole numbers
digits
Noun
Perhaps that’s why tickets are in the triple digits for the show scheduled for Sunday.
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Joseph Hernandez,
Kansas City Star,
30 Sep. 2026
This was in Arizona heat, which in August regularly sits somewhere in triple digits.
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Scott Thompson OutKick,
FOXNews.com,
29 Sep. 2026