The day the Soviets officially crossed the border, I wrote to President Carter: We now have the opportunity of giving to the USSR its Vietnam War..  Afghanistan, then, in a sense, became the United States' pawn.
There is no largest number. One simple way to consider this is to  look at the function:    f(x) = x + 1    Pick any number, and plug it into that function. No â¦ matter what  number you plug in, the function will always give you a number that  is one larger than the previous one. It doesn't matter how big x  is, there will always be an x + 1 value, which will always be  larger than x.
Number Types. Numbers are classified according to type. The first type of number is the first type you ever learned about: the counting, or natural numbers: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, ... The next type is the whole numbers, which are the natural numbers together with zero: 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, ... Then come the integers, which are zero, the natural numbers, and the negatives of the naturals: