since percentages have been rounded off to whole numbers, the total will not be exactly equal to 100%
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All projections are rounded to the nearest whole number.—Dom Luszczyszyn, The Athletic, 12 Feb. 2025 Roughly one-third of fourth graders could not identify whole numbers nor lines of symmetry in shapes, while nearly half could not determine familiar words using context clues.—Meira Gebel, Axios, 30 Jan. 2025 In 1640, Pierre de Fermat conjectured that there are infinitely many primes that can be formulated by squaring two whole numbers and adding them together.—Joseph Howlett, WIRED, 19 Jan. 2025 Two and a half millennia ago, the Pythagoreans held as a core belief that every number is the ratio of two whole numbers.—Erica Klarreich, Quanta Magazine, 8 Jan. 2025 See All Example Sentences for whole number
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