Noun
real numbers
plural of real number
real numbers pl (plural only)
(mathematics) The smallest set containing all limits of convergent sequences of rational numbers.
What advantage will be gained by even a purely abstract definition of real numbers of a higher type, I am as yet unable to see, conceiving as I do of the domain of real numbers as complete in itself. Richard Dedekind
I think we did a great job of putting together a program that would have made good e-books available had people been buying e-books in any real numbers. Thomas Perry