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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.
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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
Earthquake magnitudes are measured on a logarithmic scale, meaning each whole number increase represents a tenfold increase in power of the seismic waves, resulting in approximately 31.6 times more energy released.
—Michael Gfoeller and David H. Rundell, Newsweek, 15 Jan. 2025
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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
Earthquake magnitudes are measured on a logarithmic scale, meaning each whole number increase represents a tenfold increase in power of the seismic waves, resulting in approximately 31.6 times more energy released.
—Michael Gfoeller and David H. Rundell, Newsweek, 15 Jan. 2025
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“Whole number.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/whole%20number. Accessed 28 Mar. 2025.
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