'Yes, that is right. Who told the answer??' you asked. When the dwarf who answered the question came forward, everybody gasped with surprise except the fellow mathematicians who became even angrier. When you asked his name, he told that his name was Shubhlin. He was the one who asked that question. Then you told, 'I am from India. The digit 0 was invented by the great Aryabhata in my country. Whole numbers are not the only numbers there. The question asked by Shubhlin does make sense. We have already found the answer to those questions.'

Then you continued- There is a set of numbers which contains 0, natural numbers and negatives of natural numbers altogether called __.

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Solution

All the natural numbers along with their negatives and zero together are known as Integers.

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