Integers are whole numbers without decimals or fractions which are useful because calculations are easier to work out.
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Because otherwise you would only know how to subtract and add with the same integers. Not a particularly useful skill unless just those integers turned up!
When you can do addition and subtraction without recourse to it. Then it simply becomes a distraction.
Any fraction can go into any other fraction. The concept of "going into" for a limited set of numbers is useful only for integers.
2436 and 1624 are integers, not fractions. And, as integers, they are unequal.2436 and 1624 are integers, not fractions. And, as integers, they are unequal.2436 and 1624 are integers, not fractions. And, as integers, they are unequal.2436 and 1624 are integers, not fractions. And, as integers, they are unequal.
At least the following families: all integers; all positive integers; all odd integers; and all "square integers", that is, integers that are squares of other integers.