2006-06-15 15:41:58 · 8 answers · asked by Oleg B 6 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
Initially, any element of the minimal inductive set. Later on, any element of a set with a successor function satisfying the Peano axioms.
2006-06-15 16:57:51 · answer #1 · answered by mathematician 7 · 3⤊ 1⤋
Natural Number
A positive integer 1, 2, 3, ... (Sloane's A000027). The set of natural numbers is denoted N. Unfortunately, 0 is sometimes also included in the list of "natural" numbers (Bourbaki 1968, Halmos 1974), and there seems to be no general agreement about whether to include it. In fact, Ribenboim (1996) states "Let be a set of natural numbers; whenever convenient, it may be assumed that ."
Due to lack of standard terminology, the following terms and notations are recommended in preference to "counting number," "natural number," and "whole number."
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2006-06-15 15:55:38 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
a natural number is any positive integer (1, 2, 3, 4, etc) or zero (0).
2006-06-15 15:44:50 · answer #3 · answered by Mr. E 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Natural things.
2006-06-15 16:48:46 · answer #4 · answered by Aritmentor 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's a number that you say when counting. Like one, two, three, or even four.
1/4, 3.4 or -6 or pi would *not* be natural.
2006-06-15 15:46:08 · answer #5 · answered by shapedy 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Natural numbers are all integers greater than zero.
2006-06-15 15:45:12 · answer #6 · answered by wmp55 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
it depends, if you mean natural numbers then it is what all those other people said, but if you mean like natural log, then it is e, which equals 2.718281828454590
2006-06-15 15:53:35 · answer #7 · answered by haylcon5 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
beats me
2006-06-15 15:44:09 · answer #8 · answered by Tina B 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋