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Real number  |  Real   (English)

Definition (keystage 3)

A real number, also called just a real, is a number which can be written out as a decimal, even though it might take forever to do so.
We use the symbol R for the set of all real numbers x=k.x1x2x3... where k is an integer and each of the xi is one of the digits 0, 1, ...9.
Whole numbers, fractions, irrational and transcendental numbers are all real.

Definition (keystage 4)

R is the smallest set of numbers that contains the rationals Q together with the limits of all bounded increasing sequences in Q.

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