natural numbers

natural numbers
a) The set of positive integers, 1, 2, 3, ....

0∈ℕ, and

b) The set of non-negative integers, ℕ = 0, 1, 2, 3, ..., being the smallest such that:

n∈ℕ⇒ succ(n)∈ℕ.


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