Wiktionary
natural numbers
n. 1 (context mathematics English) The set of positive integers, {1, 2, 3, ...}. 2 (context mathematics computer science English) The set of non-negative integers, {0, 1, 2, 3, ...}.
Usage examples of "natural numbers".
She was reading a tutorial in elementary chemistry, one which confirmed at the same time that the natural numbers represented the elements.
In Cantor's notation, it represents the first of the transfinite numbersdenoting the infinite set of integers and fractions, or natural numbers.
Either conventional arithmetic was intrinsically flawed, and the whole Platonic ideal of the natural numbers was ultimately self-contradictory .