real number

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun

The limit of a convergent sequence of rational numbers, whether the limit is a rational number such as 2, -5, or 2/7 or whether the limit is an irrational number such as the square root of two or the circumference of the circle whose radius is one.
A floating-point number.

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real number real numbers

imaginary number

hyperreal number imaginary number surreal number transfinite number

real number line real number system

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