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Real Numbers

All of these number types - rational numbers (which includes integers) and irrational numbers fall under the general heading of real numbers. The fact that these are called ``real'' implies immediately that there is a classification of numbers that are ``unreal'' - in fact this is the case, but we call them ``imaginary'' instead.



Geoff Martin 2006-10-15

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