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Are negative numbers natural numbers

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No. Natural numbers may or may not include 0, depending on who you ask (i.e. they can begin 0, 1, 2, 3, … or 1, 2, 3, 4, …), but they don't ever include the negative numbers. However, integers, which are a superset of the natural numbers (i.e. the natural numbers are contained "in" the integers), do include negatives.

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