Timeline for Origin of phrase 'natural number'
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| Jan 3, 2021 at 21:56 | comment | added | Gerry Myerson | The French term "au naturel" means naked. Perhaps this is why the numbers that were unencumbered by such clothing as fractions, decimals, square root symbols and negative signs were considered to be natural. | |
| Dec 25, 2020 at 13:26 | answer | added | Gerald Edgar | timeline score: 1 | |
| Dec 25, 2020 at 11:47 | comment | added | bof | @dodd The online OED's definitions of 'phrase' include 2a. "A small group or collocation of words expressing a single notion" and 2c. "Grammar. A small, unified group of words (in a sentence) that does not include both a subject and a predicate or finite verb; (more recently also) a single word having an equivalent syntactic function; (gen.) any syntactic unit larger than a word and smaller than a clause." | |
| Dec 25, 2020 at 9:43 | review | Close votes | |||
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| Dec 25, 2020 at 6:19 | comment | added | markvs | A phrase normally is a part of a sentence, It is not always true, of course, Many people would view "Sh*t!" as a phrase. But according to Wikipedia, phrase is usually required to include all the dependents of the units that it contains. Some expressions that may be called phrases in everyday language are not phrases in the technical sense. For example, in the sentence I can't put up with Alex, the words put up with may be referred to in common language as a phrase but they do not form a complete phrase, since they do not include Alex, which is the complement of the preposition with. | |
| Dec 25, 2020 at 5:42 | comment | added | JRN | I think this question is more appropriately asked at History of Science and Mathematics. | |
| Dec 25, 2020 at 5:34 | comment | added | bof | @dodd Why do you deny that 'natural number' is a phrase? | |
| Dec 25, 2020 at 4:21 | comment | added | markvs | It is not a phrase. | |
| Dec 25, 2020 at 4:09 | history | asked | burtonpeterj | CC BY-SA 4.0 |