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This is a definition question. Mathematically negative numbers are not whole numbers. This information is of little value without context though.

The link misinterprets FTA.

I miss quoted the original blog by replacing "has" for "can" and such. But the second sentence of what you quoted is misleading because that's not an correct interpretation of FTA.…

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=http://... note that prime factorization is unique up to order. We aren't talking about order when we use the term uniqueness.

"The fundamental theorem of arithmetic can be approximately interpreted 3 * 5 * 13 and 3 * 13 * 5" - this is false. The fundamental theorem of arithmetic "can be more approximately…