Whole numbers can be positive or negative numbers. Numbers are whole as long as they have no fractins or decimals with them.
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The sum of the first 500 counting numbers (1-500) is 125,001.
No. Positive numbers can be whole numbers but they can also be decimal numbers and fractions. If a value is a whole number, it does not have a fraction or decimal part and it is not negative. Whole numbers are also called natural numbers or counting numbers.
Apart from zero (which is its own opposite), the opposites of whole numbers are also whole numbers. You have the set of whole numbers which is also known as the set of integers.
The set of all whole numbers and their opposites are
they are almost all equivalent - whole numbers also have the number 0, which natural numbers (counting numbers) do not.