Question

Write the smallest natural number. Can you write the largest natural number? \[\]

Answer 1

Hint: We recall the definition of natural number as the number using which we need to count. We also recall that the number that comes first during our counting is smaller than the numbers that come later. We use this knowledge to find the smallest natural number. We use the knowledge that we can add 1 to a number to a number greater than that number to check whether we can find the largest natural number. \[\]

Complete step by step answer:
We know that we use numbers to count the things that we can see or touch. We can count the number of wheels in a truck, the number of bags, or notebooks in the classroom, number o leaves in trees because we can see or touch them. The numbers we use to count are called counting numbers. The other name for counting numbers is natural numbers because anything we use to count exists in nature. The natural numbers are
\[1,2,3,4,5,....\]
We know that the numbers that we use first to count are always smaller than the numbers we use later. When we are asked to count for example trees or anything we start with the number 1. Since we use the number 1 first 1 is the smallest natural number. \[\]
We can add 1 to a natural number and we can get a natural number greater than the previous natural number. Suppose we say the largest number is $ 1000000000 $, we can add 1 to it and get $ 1000000000+1=1000000001 $ a natural number greater than $ 1000000000 $ . That is why we cannot get the largest natural number. \[\]

Note:
We note that if we add or multiply two natural numbers we can always get a natural number but if we subtract or divide two natural numbers, we may not get a natural number. There is an infinite number of natural numbers. Zero is not a natural number since we do not use it to count anything.