An integer is a maximal sequence of one or more digits (``0'' through ``9''), optionally preceded by a ``-'' character (ordinal value 45) It is interpreted as a base-10 integer value The largest allowable integer magnitude is client and/or server dependent
The whole numbers and their opposites- 0 is an integer but it is neither positive nor negative The integers from -4 to 4 are shown on the number line below
The natural numbers supplemented by their negative counterparts The set { -3, -2, -1, 0, 1, 2, 3 }
The set consisting of the positive and negative whole numbers and zero; for example, { -2, -1, 0, 1, 2 }