Would you like to have...
1, 1.00001, 1.00002, 1.00003...
OR
1, 2, 3, 4?
If all counting numbers were not whole numbers, what would decimal or fraction numbers be?
It would be too hard, making a huge crisis or something, making maths possibly unused.
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Yes all counting numbers are whole numbers, but the reverse is not true (zero!)
All counting numbers ARE (not is!) a proper subset of the set of whole numbers.
They are not. 0 (which is a whole number) is not considered a counting number(natural #).
No. 0 and negative integers are whole numbers but they are not counting numbers.
Whole numbers include the number 0 and counting numbers do not.