How to Use whole number in a Sentence

whole number

noun

• The nursery is making the same argument as St. Germain about the rounding of the scores to the nearest whole number.
  — Sun-Sentinel.com, 1 Nov. 2017
• The question is: Is there any whole number solution for xn yn = zn?
  — Andrew Moseman, Popular Mechanics, 1 Sep. 2017
• The question is: Is there any whole number solution for xn + yn = zn?
  — Andrew Moseman, Popular Mechanics, 1 Sep. 2017
• Havens’s problem is an example of Pell’s equation, which is an equation of the form x2−Ny2=1 where N is a whole number that is not a square.
  — Evelyn Lamb, Popular Mechanics, 23 Feb. 2021
• But as the stylebook notes, a workweek or other labor schedule could be viewed in whole numbers.
  — WSJ, 27 Nov. 2023
• Each whole number increase — from, say, 3 to 4, or 6 to 7 — is a tenfold increase in amplitude.
  — Madalyn Amato, Los Angeles Times, 12 June 2021
• Data in the thousands were rounded to whole numbers while numbers in the millions were rounded to the first decimal point.
  — Rachel Lerman, Washington Post, 22 Dec. 2023
• There's a whole number of experts from all countries around the world participating in this.
  — Foreign Affairs, 17 July 2023
• Hippasus was a member of the Pythagorean brotherhood, a sect that held that the world is structured by whole numbers and their ratios.
  — Amir Alexander, WSJ, 7 June 2019
• Fill measuring cups and spoons with water or flour to introduce your kids to whole numbers and fractions.
  — Parents Editors, Parents, 23 Aug. 2023
• Percentages are based on the number of respondents to each question and rounded to the nearest whole number.
  — Tom Plaut, The Enquirer, 10 Nov. 2022
• Integers are just the whole numbers, plus the negative whole numbers and zero.
  — Quanta Magazine, 27 June 2023
• On the magnitude scale, each increase of one whole number translates to 32 times more energy.
  — CNN, 8 Feb. 2023
• Remember, after 100 years, the calendar still isn't off by a whole number.
  — Phil Plait, Discover Magazine, 29 Feb. 2012
• Remember, after 100 years, the calendar still isn’t off by a whole number.
  — Phil Plait, Discover Magazine, 29 Feb. 2012
• Percentages are based on number of respondents to each question and rounded to the nearest whole number.
  — Frank P. Leggio Jr., Cincinnati.com, 17 Oct. 2019
• An irrational number is one that cannot be expressed by a fraction of integers, or whole numbers.
  — Jay Bennett, Popular Mechanics, 11 May 2018
• Going up one whole number on the scale indicates the ground motion recorded by seismic equipment increased by a factor of 10.
  — Kerry Breen, CBS News, 5 Apr. 2024
• As Wired reports, there are a whole number of different ways to do so, with varying degrees of intensity.
  — Eric Limer, Popular Mechanics, 21 Aug. 2015
• And since the 19th Century, pi has been known to be transcendental, meaning that no combination of its powers can add up to a whole number.
  — Dan Rockmore /, NBC News, 14 Mar. 2018
• One whole number increase on the scale creates seismic waves with 10 times the amplitude, releasing 32 times the energy.
  — Carolyn Y. Johnson, Anchorage Daily News, 9 Feb. 2023
• The infinity of rational numbers is the same as the infinity of whole numbers.
  — Quanta Magazine, 27 June 2023
• Put differently, the formula xn + yn = zn has no whole number solution when n is greater than 2.
  — Kat Eschner, Smithsonian, 17 Aug. 2017
• Put differently, the formula xn yn = zn has no whole number solution when n is greater than 2.
  — Kat Eschner, Smithsonian, 17 Aug. 2017
• Prior to the discovery of the Pythagorean Theorem, the Greeks thought all numbers could be expressed as either a whole number or a fraction — a ratio of two whole numbers.
  — Avery Hurt, Discover Magazine, 24 Sep. 2022
• Burungale and Skinner were able to show that, at least some of the time, if a whole number has a single associated matrix, then that number must be the sum of two rational cubes.
  — Erica Klarreich, Quanta Magazine, 29 Nov. 2022
• Correction: On March 6 this article was updated to clarify that the integers, not the whole numbers, are in a sense the original group.
  — Kevin Hartnett, Quanta Magazine, 2 Mar. 2017
• Because the amount of time the Earth takes to spin on its axis is not dependent on the amount of time the Earth takes to complete a full orbit around the sun, the number of 24-hour rotations that fit into a calendar year is not a whole number.
  — Jacob Livesay, USA TODAY, 24 June 2022
• But workers who are freelance, on temporary contracts, or in part-time employment register in the headcount as less than a whole number.
  — The Economist, 6 Feb. 2020
• Over the finite field with two elements, the coefficients and whole numbers of polynomials are both encoded as strings of zeros and ones.
  — Kevin Hartnett, Quanta Magazine, 6 May 2024

Last Updated: 20 Nov 2024