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Originally Posted by Paul Beardsley
I believe he should have said "natural numbers". There's scope for a quibble there (is 0 a natural number?) but not as much of one.
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Actually there seems to be more scope for a quibble than for the primes case, as natural numbers including 0 aka ℕ
0 is used about as often as natural numbers without 0 aka ℕ
*, so there's no real convention about which set is meant by "natural numbers".
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