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History of Real Numbers
In mathematics, a real number is a value that represents a quantity along a continuous line.
The real numbers include all the rational...
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History of Real Numbers
In mathematics, 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 π (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.
These descriptions of the real numbers are not sufficiently rigorous by the modern standards of
pure mathematics.
The discovery of a suitably rigorous de
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