Real Numbers chart
Real Numbers chart
A Real number is a value that represents a quantity along a continuous line. The real numbers include
all the rational numbers, such as the integer -5 and the fraction 4/3, and all the irrational numbers such
as 2 (1.41421356... the square root of two, an irrational algebraic number) and (3.14159265..., a
transcendental number). Real numbers can be thought of as points on an infinitely long line called the
number line or real line, where the points corresponding to integers are equally spaced. Any real
number can be determined by a possibly infinite decimal representation such as that of 8.632, where
each consecutive digit is measured in units one tenth the size of the previous one. The real line can be
thought of as a part of the complex plane, and correspondingly.
These descriptions of the real numbers are not sufficiently rigorous by the modern standards of pure
mathematics. The discovery of a suitably rigorous definition of the real numbers -- indeed, the
realization that a better definition was needed -- was one of the most important developments of 19th
century mathematics. The currently standard axiomatic definition is that real numbers form the unique
complete totally ordered field (R,+,*,<), up to isomorphism,[1] Whereas popular constructive
definitions of real numbers include declaring them as equivalence classes of Cauchy sequences of
rational numbers, Dedekind cuts, or certain infinite "decimal representations", together with precise
interpretations for the arithmetic operations and the order relation.
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A real number may be either rational or irrational; either algebraic or transcendental; and
either positive, negative, or zero. Real numbers are used to measure continuous quantities.
They may in theory be expressed by decimal representations that have an infinite sequence
of digits to the right of the decimal point; these are often represented in the same form as
324.823122147... The el ipsis (three dots) indicate that there would still be more digits to
come.More formally, real numbers have the two basic properties of being an ordered field,
and having the least upper bound property. The first says that real numbers comprise a field,
with addition and multiplication as wel as division by nonzero numbers, which can be total y
ordered on a number line in a way compatible with addition and multiplication. The second
says that if a nonempty set of real numbers has an upper bound, then it has a least upper
bound. The second condition distinguishes the real numbers from the rational numbers.The
set of rational numbers whose square is less than 2 is a set with an upper bound (e.g. 1.5)
but no least upper bound: hence the rational numbers do not satisfy the least upper bound .
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