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Numbers
Rational & Irrational Numbers
Term | Definition |
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Natural Numbers | Counting numbers such as 1, 2, 3, 4, ... |
Whole Numbers | Natural numbers and zero |
Integers | Whole numbers and their opposites |
Rational Numbers | Natural numbers, whole numbers, integers, fractions, terminating decimals, and repeating decimals (numbers that can be written in fractional form) |
Irrational Numbers | Numbers that cannot be written in fractional form |
Square Root (of a Number) | A value that can be multiplied by itself to give the original number |
Radical Sign | The sign placed before an expression to denote that the square root is to be extracted |
Perfect Square | The product of a rational number multiplied by itself |
Terminating Decimal | A decimal number that has digits that do not go on forever |
Repeating Decimal | A number whose decimal representation eventually becomes periodic (the same sequence of digits repeats indefinitely) |