## Ray951 Group Title is 0 a natural number? 2 years ago 2 years ago

1. ParthKohli Group Title

Nope

2. ParthKohli Group Title

Natural numbers are positive numbers that start from 1.

3. ParthKohli Group Title

0 is every number but a natural number.

4. Ray951 Group Title

ok... thank you

5. windsylph Group Title

About half of math literature consider it as a natural number, and about half consider it as not..

6. ParthKohli Group Title

Well actually natural numbers are {1,2,3...}

7. Calcmathlete Group Title

THink of it this way. natural numbers are numbers you'd use in counting.

8. windsylph Group Title

My textbook in discrete mathematics, for example, includes 0 as a natural number.Although personally, I don't haha.

9. waterineyes Group Title

Natural Numbers are the counting numbers, the number we use when we are counting.. Whole Numbers are the Natural Numbers including 0 in it...

10. Wired Group Title
11. maheshmeghwal9 Group Title

:)

12. bernardthe1st Group Title

why natural numbers considered natural?

13. Ray951 Group Title

dunno

14. maheshmeghwal9 Group Title

becoz they r natural lol

15. windsylph Group Title

Yep that link says it all. Some include 0 as a natural number.

16. Wired Group Title

Natural @bernardthe1st Read the top of the link I posted. Natural as in what you count with.

17. windsylph Group Title

Excluding or including 0 as a natural number has their own merits, mathematicians say.. So there's really no standard answer to this. It just depends on the context of where you're using natural numbers. And yes please read @Wired's post above, he has a link explaining it.

18. maheshmeghwal9 Group Title

So as a summary; The whole world doesn't take 0 as a natural number though there are some exceptions. & Even if u give exam u should write 0 = natural no. otherwise u know what is the result LOL. @Ray951 k! my friend

19. maheshmeghwal9 Group Title

@w is right.

20. maheshmeghwal9 Group Title

@windsylph

21. maheshmeghwal9 Group Title

sorry in that para $0 \ne \natural$

22. maheshmeghwal9 Group Title

natural

23. cornitodisc Group Title

0 is a natural number because it is a real number.

24. maheshmeghwal9 Group Title

write it in exam & wt would u get; u know @cornitodisc The question contains philosophy. u should remember only @Ray951 $0\color{red}{\ne} \text{{N} No.}$