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The question doesn't make a lot of sense. Both of those are numeric values; they don't have a "charge" in any meaningful sense. The overall charge on the nucleus is the same as the atomic number; that's about the only connection between these concepts that I can think of.

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Yes, the atomic number is a positive integer that is equal to the number of protons in the nucleus - but the electrical charge on a proton is +1.

Also, the Atomic Mass of a nucleus is practically NEVER an integral multiple of anything.

An exception: The atomic mass of a carbon-12 nucleus is exactly 12.00000 atomic mass units (amu) by definition.

The atomic mass of some other isotope of some other element might be something like 34.5 amu, which is definitely not an integer in any way.

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