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Natural Numbers

The set of natural numbers, also known as the counting numbers, contains the numbers 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6,... and so on. We can express the natural numbers in a set as

{1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7,...}

The symbol for the set of natural numbers is

N