real number

Noun

Meaning

any rational or irrational number

Source: WordNet

Synonyms

real integer absolute value real-life number actual number exact number correct number precise number literal number realistic number tangible number virtual number accurate figure actual amount actual count

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Antonyms

imaginary number wrong number invalid number number reached through error incorrect telephone number number dialled by mistake

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Hypernyms

imaginary complex number imaginary number complex quantity

Hyponyms

rational irrational irrational number scalar product inner product rational number

Examples

We may compare a man in the process of computing a real number to a machine which is only capable of a finite number of conditions q1, q2, ..., qK which will be called " m-configurations ". Alan Turing

At least Obama was half-way honest about how much he was going to spend on health care. He had it at $600 billion. And the real number... is $1.2 trillion. Judd Gregg

Some of the symbols written down will form the sequence of figures which is the decimal of the real number... being computed. The others are just rough notes to "assist the memory ". ...[O]nly ...these rough notes ...will be liable to erasure. Alan Turing

Although the construction is called "imaginary", and although the concept of an imaginary number may be intuitively more difficult to grasp than that of a real number, the construction is perfectly valid from a mathematical standpoint. Source: Internet

And in fact, Cantor's diagonal argument is constructive, in the sense that given a bijection between the real numbers and natural numbers, one constructs a real number that doesn't fit, and thereby proves a contradiction. Source: Internet

All quadratic equations will have two solutions in the complex number system, but need not have any in the real number system. Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

real motive real nappy real nature real number line real number system real numbers