$0$ was very happy to finally get to meet other numbers after a long long time. Also, every number was very angry at $- 1$ . Everybody told Ted to be the judge of what should be done to $- 1$ . $- 1$ realized its mistake and asked for forgiveness. Ted forgave $- 1$ and finally, a world of integers was formed where no number was largest or smallest.

Then out of curiosity, Ted asked $0$ , “How many integers actually are there in this world?” $0$ replied – “There are __ integers.”

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Solution

There are infinite natural numbers. So, of course, there are infinite integers too.

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After that Ted asked $- 13$ about zero. He was shocked when it said that $0$ was kidnapped by the positive integers and that its house has always been empty.
How is this even possible that $0$ is not in the state of positive integers as well as negative integers?

Ted found out that every number loved and missed $0$ . But, where is $0$ ? And why was $- 1$ lying about $0$ being smaller? Ted knew that $0$ was smaller than $1$ and greater than $- 1$ . So, it must lie between $- 1$ and $1$ right? But it can neither be in the state of negative integers nor positive integers because it belonged to neither.

Suddenly, Ted knew the answer, which was:

'Any more doubts anybody?' you asked everybody there. After that, the council concluded that this design was good and they were all so happy after getting the knowledge of negative numbers and integers. They allowed you to leave to Earth. Everybody thanked you. At the time you were leaving, it was 2:00 pm. You asked Shubhlin that where you actually were. Then he assured that you will know shortly. When you came out of the tunnel, it was very chilling. You asked about the temperature to Shubhlin, he told it is 6 degrees below 0.

At this, you told Shubhlin to use integers and tell the temperature once again. This time Shubhlin understood the question and answered correctly. What was the answer given by Shubhlin?

“But what about this wall? Was this always here?” Ted asked. $1$ replied, “No, this wall was not always here. During old times we along with our additive inverses and $0$ used to live together. During that time, this world was big and was called the world of __.”

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