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Real Number System
Vocabulary Terms for the real number system
Question | Answer |
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REAL NUMBERS | The collection of all rational and irrational numbers. |
NATURAL NUMBERS | The collection of numbers ranging from 1 to infinity. |
RATIONAL NUMBERS | Any number that can be written as a fraction or whose decimal expansion either terminates or repeats. |
IRRATIONAL NUMBERS | Any number that cannot be written as a fraction or whose decimal expansion does not terminate nor repeat. |
INTEGERS | The collection of numbers that includes whole numbers and their negatives. |
WHOLE NUMBERS | The collection of numbers that range from 0 to infinity. |
Exponents | An exponent is a number that tells how many times a factor is repeated in a product. |