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since percentages have been rounded off to whole numbers, the total will not be exactly equal to 100%
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Groups generalize essential properties of the whole numbers.
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Leila Sloman, WIRED, 6 Oct. 2024
In the upper-left corner of the screen, just above the score, each team’s chance of winning the game is expressed as a percentage—a whole number, reassuring in its roundness, that is recalculated after every at-bat.
—Ross Andersen, The Atlantic, 13 Oct. 2024
For example, the set {2, 4, 8, 16, …}, in which each number doubles the one before it, is so spread out along the number line that it’s said to make up 0 percent of the whole numbers.
—Leila Sloman, WIRED, 1 Sep. 2024
For example, the set {2, 4, 8, 16, …}, in which each number doubles the one before it, is so spread out along the number line that it’s said to make up 0% of the whole numbers.
—Leila Sloman, Quanta Magazine, 5 Aug. 2024
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Leila Sloman, WIRED, 6 Oct. 2024
In the upper-left corner of the screen, just above the score, each team’s chance of winning the game is expressed as a percentage—a whole number, reassuring in its roundness, that is recalculated after every at-bat.
—Ross Andersen, The Atlantic, 13 Oct. 2024
For example, the set {2, 4, 8, 16, …}, in which each number doubles the one before it, is so spread out along the number line that it’s said to make up 0 percent of the whole numbers.
—Leila Sloman, WIRED, 1 Sep. 2024
For example, the set {2, 4, 8, 16, …}, in which each number doubles the one before it, is so spread out along the number line that it’s said to make up 0% of the whole numbers.
—Leila Sloman, Quanta Magazine, 5 Aug. 2024
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“Whole number.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/whole%20number. Accessed 21 Nov. 2024.
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