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Thursday, August 20, 2009

What is a Natural number

In mathematics, from number theory tutorial there are two conventions for the set of natural numbers: it is either the set of positive integers {1, 2, 3, ...} according to the traditional definition or the set of non-negative integers {0, 1, 2, ...} according to a definition first appearing in the nineteenth century.

Natural numbers have two main purposes: counting ("there are 3 apples on the table") and ordering ("this is the 3rd largest city in the country"). These purposes are related to the linguistic notions of cardinal and ordinal numbers, respectively. (See English numerals.) A more recent notion is that of a nominal number, which is used only for naming.

Properties of the natural numbers related to divisibility, such as the distribution of prime numbers, are studied in number theory. Problems concerning counting and ordering, such as partition enumeration, are studied in combinatorics.



When we add two natural numbers

we also get a natural number

Let's have a look at a simple problem from numeric and algebraic operations



2 is a natural number

5 is also natural number

2+5=7

7 is also a natural number.

We represent natural numbers with W

w={ 0,1,2,3.....}

If you know the basics of this you can get any math answers