Question

The counting numbers are also called ____________.

Answer 1

Hint: Counting numbers (also called whole number or natural numbers) are those used to count physical objects in the real world, such as. 0, 1, 2, 3, 4 .....

Complete answer
As we have been given about counting numbers that “ The counting numbers are also called ____________”
So, the answer is natural numbers.
Because we know that natural numbers are those counting numbers that start from 1 and goes beyond such as 1,2,3,4,5,6,…….
And it also satisfies the conditions like
1. Does not include zero.
2. Does not include negative numbers.
3. Does not include fractions (such as $\dfrac{1}{2}$ , $\dfrac{5}{2}$, etc)
4. Does not include decimals (such as 0.9 or 1.3)
Both the counting numbers and the natural numbers are synonymous to each other as we can see that the numbers like 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15,16,17,18…….(so as), are not only counting numbers but at the same time they are natural numbers too.
Hence , the final answer is that “ The counting numbers are also called “NATURAL NUMBERS”.

Note: The numbers such as -1,-2,….etc or fractions are not considered as counting numbers. It is because they are not natural numbers. As already discussed the natural numbers are the only one that are referred to as counting numbers.