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How do whole numbers exist?

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There is a statement in your question details that is flat out wrong. Each whole number (let's call them integers) has exactly one unit between itself and its predecessor or its successor. read more

Sure, "whole number" doesn't always mean "natural number", just as much as "natural number" doesn't always mean "integer", though depending on the reference, it does. I don't see how this couldn't this page be redirected to "natural number", as they are used ambiguous and synonymous, when the only way out of this problem is to explain the usage on "natural number". read more

So whatever mathematical "existence" means both of them are irrelevant to the "existence" of whole numbers, indeed their "existence" is based on the "existence" of the latter in the standard constructions, which do not use "getting" to 1 by piling up decimal digits. read more

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