REAL NUMBER Definition & Meaning

real number  The real numbers are most commonly encountered number system, familiar to the layman via the number line, and as the number system lying Real number, in mathematics, a quantity that can be expressed as an infinite decimal expansion The real numbers include the positive and

Illustrated definition of Real Number: The type of number we normally use, such as 1, , , 34, etc Positive or negative, large or small,  Basic Properties of the Real Numbers The real numbers behave like other numbers that we are used to dealing with We can add, subtract,

Ernest William Hobson corresponding real numbers in the new aggregate of real numbers number , which we may denote by a Two such aggregates { a } , { b } We continue our discussion on real numbers in this chapter We begin with two very important properties of positive integers in Sections and , namely the