What is a natural number and what is a whole number? Explain..

Natural numbers are a part of the number system which includes all the positive integers from 1 till infinity and are also used for counting purpose. It does not include zero. In fact, 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9…., are also called counting numbers excluding zero, fractions, decimals and negative numbers.

The whole numbers are the numbers 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, and so on (the natural numbers and zero). Negative numbers are not considered "whole numbers." All natural numbers are whole numbers, but not all whole numbers are natural numbers since zero is a whole number but not a natural number.

Natural numbers are also all numbers 1, 2, 3,4.. and so on. They are the numbers you usually count and they will continue on into infinity. Whole numbers are all natural numbers including 0. 0, 1, 2, 3, 4… Integers include all whole numbers and their negative counterpart, -4, -3, -2, -1, 0,1, 2, 3, 4,…

So in all these words, this means that natural numbers are all the numbers not including 0 and negative and whole numbers are all the numbers including 0 and negative.

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