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whole numbers

noun

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as in numbers

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 numbers No computer can tell you whether or not any equation has a solution with whole numbers. — Joseph Howlett, Scientific American, 8 Oct. 2026 Prime 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 Cantor has already challenged what seems like common sense with infinite sets of whole numbers. — Big Think, 25 Nov. 2025

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digits

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To assess their computing potential, the researchers used the devices’ measured electrical characteristics in a convolutional neural network designed to recognize handwritten digits from the standard MNIST dataset.

— New Atlas, New Atlas, 18 Oct. 2026
Engineers could represent the two configurations as binary digits, or zeros and ones.

— Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 13 Oct. 2026

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