Positive Integer
The positive integers are the numbers 1, 2, 3, ... (OEIS A000027), sometimes called the counting numbers or natural
numbers, denoted 
.
They are the solution to the simple linear recurrence equation
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with 
.
A plot of the first few positive integers represented as a sequence of binary bits is shown above. The top portion shows 
to 
, and the
bottom shows the next 510 values.
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