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The next set of numbers are the integers, which include the natural numbers, 0, and the negative whole numbers: .

The set of integers is closed under addition, subtraction, and multiplication, because when you apply any of these operations to any pair of integers, the result is an integer. However, the integers aren’t closed under division, because when you divide a pair of integers, the result isn’t always an integer. For example: