Zero is a member of the set of whole numbers. Some people include it in the set of natural numbers, some people don't.
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All negative integers are whole numbers but they are not natural numbers. Mathematicians are not agreed about the status of zero.
a rational number is different from a natural number because a rational number can be expressed as a fraction and natural numbers are just countinq numbers =D
The most common definition of 'natural' numbers is: The counting numbers.According to that definition, all natural numbers are positive.
Numbers are infinite, as a matter of fact counting decimals there are a infinite amount of numbers between 0 and 1. So depending on what you mean with natural numbers no, there is no natural last number.
Whole numbers are usually defined as the number 0,1,2,3,4,5,6.... where "...." means it goes on forever. These are the natural numbers with the number 0 added to them. So the natural numbers are 1,2,3,4,5,6...The integers are all the whole number and all the negatives of the natural numbers....-4,-3,-2,-1,0,1,2,3,4...So every whole number is an integer.Every natural number is an integer.Every integer is NOT a whole number. ( look at -2)Every integer is NOT a natural number. ( look at -3)The set of integers contains the set of natural numbers and contains the set of whole numbers.The set of whole numbers contains the set of natural numbers.
All prime numbers are natural numbers. So yes, some natural numbers are prime numbers.