OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 9354

real number

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número real
The limit of a convergent sequence of rational numbers, whether the limit is a rational number such as 2, -5, or 2/7 or whether the limit is an irrational number such as the square root of two or the circumference of the circle whose radius is one.
A real number can be regarded abstractly as an equivalence class of Cauchy sequences of real numbers.ᵂᴾ
Every integer is a real number, but not vice versa.
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