Actually, those are not the same. Natural numbers include zero, positive integers do not. She shoud definately use 'big naturals'.
Edit: although you could argue that it doesnt matter as 0 is arguably neither big nor large
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Strictly positive numbers, Z~0~^+^, don't include zero. Positive numbers aka naturals, Z^+^ = N, do.
Edit: this is what I've learned at school, but according to wikipedia the definitions of these vary quite a bit
Natural numbers include zero
Only if you're French or a computer scientist or something! No one else counts from zero.
There's nothing natural about zero. The famously organized and inventive Roman Empire did fine without it and it wasn't a popular concept in Europe until the early thirteenth century.
If zero were natural like 1, 2, 3, 4, then all cultures would have counted from zero, but they absolutely did not.
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Natural numbers only include zero if you define it so in the beginning of your book/paper/whatever. Otherwise it's ambiguous and you should be ashamed of yourself.
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Natural numbers include zero
That is a divisive opinion and not actually a fact
Yeah I find it easier to just accept the terminology of natural numbers and whole numbers so we have simple names for both.
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Depends on how you draw it.
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Also in an aqueous environment, they become floating point values.
Big Naturals Are More Pronounced
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That's true OP, "big naturals" are indeed very pronounced.
we like to see those Double negative intergers.
I like natural more as well because numbers aren’t real and claiming otherwise is just blue-balling all the nerds