
Michael McDonough
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Michael McDonough was a media team intern at Encyclopaedia Britannica in 2022. He is expected to graduate in 2023 from Northwestern University and is studying journalism, statistics, and psychology. A life-long learner, he seeks to use different types of media as a tool to share the joy of learning.
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Natural number, any number in the set of positive integers {1, 2, 3…} and sometimes zero. The term natural likely refers to humanity’s innate understanding and use of positive discrete values. Sometimes called “counting numbers,” natural numbers predate recorded history, as it is believed that…
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