Natural numbers

Natural numbers

Natural numbers are the ordered set of numbers that humanity has used to count, which are assigned ordinal names to name each particular number:

Units
Number Ordinal
1 First
2 Second
3 Third
4 Fourth
5 Fifth
6 Sixth
7 Seventh
8 Eighth
9 Ninth
11 to 19
Number Ordinal
11 Eleventh
12 Twelfth
13 Thirteenth
14 Fourteenth
15 Fifteenth
16 Sixteenth
17 Seventeenth
18 Eighteenth
19 Nineteenth
Tens
Number Ordinal
10 Tenth
20 Twenty
30 Thirty
40 Forty
50 Fifty
60 Sixty
70 Seventy
80 Eightieth
90 Ninetieth
Hundreds
Number Ordinal
100 Hundredth
200 Two hundredth
300 Three hundredth
400 Four hundredth
500 Five hundredth
600 Six hundredth
700 Seven hundredth
800 Eight hundredth
900 Nine hundredth

And so we could continue listing them until we get bored, since the set of natural numbers is infinite

However, there is no universal agreement on whether zero should be considered a natural number. Historically, 0 as a number had a much later origin than the rest of numbers. The Babylonians, in the 7th century BC. they had a symbol for zero, but just to leave no gaps when representing quantities in their base 60 positional numbering system in cuneiform script

The Hindu mathematician Brahmagupta, already considered it a number more, in the 7th century; and possibly, the Olmec and Mayan civilizations already used it as a number, centuries earlier. On the other hand, the Greeks, from which the mathematics of Western culture derive, had no concept of zero; and for that reason, there is no way to represent it in Roman numerals, a culture that drank from Greek, which prevailed in Europe until the base 10 decimal system (of Indian origin and adopted by the Arabs) began to slowly prevail from the 13th century onwards

For this reason, you can define natural numbers in two ways:

\begin{cases}\mathbb{N}=\{1,2,3,4,5,\cdots,n\} & \text{(if we do not include 0) } \\ \mathbb{N}_0=\{0,1,2,3,4,5,\cdots,n\} & \text{(if we do include 0) } \end{cases}