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What is the successor of smallest whole number?

Updated: 8/19/2019
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There is no smallest whole number. Assume that k is the smallest whole number.

Consider (k-1).

It is smaller than k and it is a whole number.

This contradicts the assumption that k is the smallest whole number.


Such a number does not exist.

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