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Question 495075: Can you give me lots of examples, and the definition of a real number, rational number, irrational number, and integers. Please and thank you.
Found 2 solutions by stanbon, Edwin McCravy:
Answer by stanbon(75887) About Me  (Show Source):
You can put this solution on YOUR website!
You will find examples of these by using Google on the net.
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cheers,
Stan H.

Answer by Edwin McCravy(20056) About Me  (Show Source):
You can put this solution on YOUR website!
REALS:
All numbers that are not imaginary are REAL numbers.

INTEGERS:
The INTEGERS consist of the counting numbers 1,2,3,4,...
and zero 0 and also the negatives of the counting numbers,
-1,-2,-3,-4,... but no numbers in between them.

RATIONALS;
The rational numbers are all the numbers you can make by 
making a fraction with an integer for the numerator and an
integer for the denominator.  But you cannot use 0 for a
denominator.

Here are some rational numbers 2%2F3, 1%2F2

All integers are also rational numbers because, for example,
the integer 7 can be written as 7%2F1 and both the numerator
and the denominator are integers.

Negative fractions such as -5%2F77 are also rational numbers 
because for example -5%2F77 can be written as either %28-5%29%2F77 or 
as 5%2F%28-77%29.   

Decimals that end, such as 7.85 are rational because for example, 7.85
can be written as 785%2F100 which reduces to 157%2F20

Decimals that don't end but which repeat a block of digits forever are
rational numbers, for example 2%2F3 = 0.6666666... 
3.76363636363... can be written as 207%2F55, (divide that out and see).

IRRATIONAL
These are simply numbers that are not rational.  They can only
be approximated by irrational numbers or written with special symbols
such as √ ∛ ∜ or p.

When they are approximated with decimals, the decimals never repeat
a block of digits.  Many people think p is the
same as the rational numbet 22%2F7.  However, if you divide that out
you get

22%2F7 = 3.142857142857142857... 

and it keeps repeating 142857 over and over forever.  However p is only close to that,
not exactly that, for the decimals of p are:

p ≈ 3.141592653589793238 and
those decimal digits go on forever with no pattern whatsoever.
                                 
(We use a wavy equal sign ≈ to indicate "approximately equal to").

When irrational numbers are approximated by decimals, they sometimes have
a pattern to the digits, such as this one:

7.2233222333222233332222233333...

but it is irrational but it doesn't repeat the same block of digits,
but increases the length of the block of 2's and 3's each time.

Edwin