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what is the difference between integer and whole number?
Integers:
        The integers are formed by the natural numbers together with the negatives of the non-zero natural numbers a subset of the real numbers. They are numbers that can be written without a fractional or decimal component, and fall within the set {..., ?2, ?1, 0, 1, 2, ...}
Whole Numbers are simply the numbers 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, … (and so on)


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