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Is every number greater than zero a positive integer?

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No. Only the whole numbers greater than zero are positive integers.

1, 2, 4, 989, 589595, 1000000 are positive integers.

0.5, pi, 1.99, 1000.0001 are positive numbers but they are not positive integers.

0 is an integer, but it is neither positive nor negative.

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