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real number [ ree -uh l, reel ] SHOW IPA
/ ˈri əl, ril / PHONETIC RESPELLING
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noun Mathematics .
a rational number or the limit of a sequence of rational numbers, as opposed to a complex number.
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Origin of real number First recorded in 1905–10
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How to use real number in a sentence On the show, a random real number was chosen between 0 and 100.
That's probably an undercount of the real number of infections across the country, as not everyone who is infected gets tested.
The real number is much higher once its 20th Television Studio, FX, Searchlight, National Geographic and ESPN services are factored in, as well as the Hulu and ESPN Plus platforms.
Once you get rid of that unwieldy infinity of real number s lots of things are easier to solve, like quantum gravity.
The true price of this item was a randomly selected real number between 0 and 100.
But along with the cartoon funk is an all-too-real story of police brutality embodied by a horde of evil Pigs.
We haven't had any real fan reaction yet, but our collective fingers are crossed.
They say it's frightening how the real CIA is perceived to be as clueless as Archer Co.
But if you listen to our leaders, they weren't the real targets here.
“This is a federal mandate that is causing some real problems for schools across the country,” Kline told a CBS affiliate in July.
The country is well inhabited, for it contains fifty-one cities, near a hundred walled towns, and a great number of villages.
We had six field-pieces, but we only took four, harnessed wit twice the usual number of horses.
There are a number of bacilli, called acid-fast bacilli, which stain in the same way as the tubercle bacillus.
Five of the number had studied with Liszt before, and the young men are artists already before the public.
I do not think the average number of passengers on a corresponding route in our country could be so few as twenty.
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British Dictionary definitions for real number
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Scientific definitions for real number
A number that can be written as a terminating or nonterminating decimal; a rational or irrational number. The numbers 2, -12.5, 3 7
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