integer

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Accordingly, in the White House video, a +100 integer flashes on-screen when a mortar shell connects with its target, as if the president himself were landing trick shots on his Twitch stream.

From Slate • Mar. 6, 2026

The brain's bias toward simple integer ratios may have evolved as a natural error-correction system that makes it easier to maintain a consistent body of music, which human societies often use to transmit information.

From Science Daily • Mar. 4, 2024

In the mid-1990s mathematician Andrew Wiles was able to prove that if n > 2, this simple equation has no integer solutions for a, b or c.

From Scientific American • Jul. 28, 2023

When they charted integer ratios from birdsong and human music, the plots all produced a similar shape resembling a long-stemmed flower.

From New York Times • Jun. 6, 2023

In quantum mechanics, the forces or interactions between matter particles are all supposed to be carried by particles of integer spin—0, 1, or 2.

From "A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays" by Stephen Hawking