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[–] baseless_discourse@mander.xyz 3 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Oh no, are we calling non-negative integers "whole numbers" now? There are proposals to change bad naming in mathematics, but I hope this is not one of them.

On the other hand, changing integer to whole number makes perfect sense.