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real line

American  
[ree-uhl, reel] / ˈri əl, ril /

noun

Mathematics.
  1. number line.

  2. the real axis in the complex plane.


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Elsner “suggested ‘Zopf’ because of how the numbers twist around the real line and how, in a sense, my life took a similar twisting journey via mathematics,” Havens says.

From Scientific American Jun. 2, 2023

It’s a real line from a real guy.

From Los Angeles Times May 16, 2023

Reuters, which earlier reported the news, cited Netflix and production company Siren Pictures as saying they purposefully did not include a complete number and weren’t aware the number shown would reach a real line.

From The Verge Oct. 6, 2021

There is no real line in the sand that’s been crossed here.

From New York Times Jun. 3, 2014

But the real line begins fifteen miles farther along the coast at Nieuport.

From Kings, Queens and Pawns An American Woman at the Front by Rinehart, Mary Roberts

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