# What is countable? ## Natural Numbers Quite simple $$\mathbb{N} = \{ 1, 2, 3, 4, \dots \}$$ Which you can just add it up every time ## Integer Numbers $Z$ can be countable as you can go $$1 \to 0$$ $$2 \to 1$$ $$3 \to -1$$ $$4 \to 2$$ $$5 \to -2$$ and so on... Here they start at 0, then go 1, -1, 2, -2, etc... ## Rational Numbers They are countable, but it is a lot more work to show