document.write( "<A HREF=/cgi-bin/jump-to-question.mpl?question=334610>Question 334610</A>: <I><SPAN STYLE=\"word-break: break-all;\"> what does the word consecutive whole number mean? </SPAN>\n" );
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document.write( "The answer to your question depends partly on the definition of \"whole number\" that you have chosen or that your instructor/textbook/school/tutor/whatever has chosen.\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "<i>Whole number</i> means variously:\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "The non-negative integers:  <IMG STYLE=\"max-width:80%;\" SRC=\"/cgi-bin/rendertex.cgi?\LARGE \{0,1,2,3,...\}\">\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "The positive integers: <IMG STYLE=\"max-width:80%;\" SRC=\"/cgi-bin/rendertex.cgi?\LARGE \{1,2,3,...\}\">\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "All integers:  <IMG STYLE=\"max-width:80%;\" SRC=\"/cgi-bin/rendertex.cgi?\LARGE \{...,-3,-2,-1,0,1,2,3,...\}\">\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "The \"consecutive\" part simply means following one another in uninterrupted succession or order.  For example, 3 is the next consecutive whole number after 2.  4 is the whole number that precedes 5 consecutively.  If <IMG STYLE=\"max-width:80%;\" SRC=\"/cgi-bin/rendertex.cgi?\Large x\"> is a whole number, then <IMG STYLE=\"max-width:80%;\" SRC=\"/cgi-bin/rendertex.cgi?\Large x\ +\ 1\"> is the next consecutive whole number. \r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "John<BR>\n" );
document.write( "<IMG STYLE=\"max-width:80%;\" SRC=\"/cgi-bin/rendertex.cgi?\LARGE e^{i\pi} + 1 = 0\"><BR>\n" );
document.write( "My calculator said it, I believe it, that settles it<BR>\n" );
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