SOLUTION: What is the smallest natural number

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Question 1035438: What is the smallest natural number
Answer by jim_thompson5910(35256) About Me  (Show Source):
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Most books I've seen define the set of natural numbers N to be

N = {1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, ...}

Basically the set of counting numbers where we start at 1. So the smallest natural number is 1