Usage of "whole numbers"

Ús de whole numbers en anglès

The mathematics just described deals almost exclusively with whole numbers or integers. 
 The Irish Times 

The fractions may not agree, but the whole numbers are the same. 
 Locusts and Wild Honey 

First, you write down all the positive whole numbers in the world. 
 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 

The updated guidelines also state that the safety scores are always whole numbers. 
 Reuters 

She's always been a proponent of the power of whole numbers. 
 The apocalypse reader 

He founded number theory, the study of properties of whole numbers, in 1640. 
 Our Legal Heritage, King AEthelbert, 596 to King George III, 177... 

That will answer for whole numbers, now for your fractions. 
 The First White Man of the West / Life and Exploits of Col. Dan'... 

The problem was that the new equation did not seem to have any solution with whole numbers. 
 The girl who played with fire 

They appear to be randomly strewn among the whole numbers, but there are tantalising indications of structure. 
 The Irish Times 

They don't use whole numbers at all. 
 Anvil of stars 

They can turn fractions into whole numbers. 
 Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith 

Boy: You want me to call the numbers made from ratios of whole numbers something called rational? 
 The Second Story of Meno / A Continuation of Socrates' Dialogue ... 

For millennia, mathematicians have tried to figure out which combinations of whole numbers satisfy a given Diophantine equation. 
 Wired 

Unfortunately they rarely represent whole numbers. 
 Scientific American Supplement, No. 415, December 15, 1883 

Eventually, these findings may help mathematicians prove Fermat's Last Theorem for some number systems beyond the positive whole numbers. 
 Wired 

Fractions: Where whole numbers and fractions are combined, the whole number is separated from the fraction with a dash. 
 Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa 