What is the set of numbers to which #-72/8# belong?

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MeneerNask
Nov 5, 2016

At first sight it belongs to the rational numbers (and it does)

Explanation:

But since #-72/8=-9# it also belongs to the subset of whole (negative) numbers.

Being negative, it does NOT belong to the set of natural numbers.

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