What exactly is an integer?

Question

explain to me wat it is please....

Answer 1

integers:
-are whole (e.g. not 6.666, or 3.1415, but instead 6 or -3.)
-can be negative or positive
-can be 0
-are numbers!

Answer 2

The integers consist of the positive natural numbers (1, 2, 3, …), their negatives (−1, −2, −3, ...) and the number zero. A formal way of stating this: the integers are the only integral domain whose positive elements are well-ordered, and which has order preserved under addition. Like the natural numbers, the integers form a countably infinite set. The set of all integers is usually denoted in mathematics by a boldface Z (or blackboard bold, \mathbb{Z}), which stands for Zahlen (German for "numbers").

The term rational integer is used, in algebraic number theory, to distinguish these 'ordinary' integers, in the rational numbers, from other concepts such as the Gaussian integers.

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Answer 3

Integers are whole numbers and their opposites (e.g. 2, -17, 2001, 0). Integers include natural numbers, digits, even numbers, and odd numbers.

Answer 4

A member of the set of positive whole numbers {1, 2, 3, . . . }, negative whole numbers {-1, -2, -3, . . . }, and zero {0}.
A complete unit or entity.

Answer 5

Whole numbers--positive or negative, including the number 0. Not fractions or decimal points.

Answer 6

an integer is pretty much any number. negatvie or postive. it has a oppostie . EX -6 , 6 : 10, -10..... no decimal.. (i think)

Answer 7

an integer is any whole real number, ex. -1,-2,-3 ect. or 0,1,2,3 ect., basically, no decimals or fractions

Answer 8

Number like: 1,2,3,4,5...100,1001,etc. (nothing after the decimal point)

Not numbers like: 1.111, 21.1138,3.990,.3, etc.


Mike Honeycutt