English-Italian translations for real number

• numero reale
  Si stima che il numero reale delle violenze sia da cinque a dieci volte superiore al numero dei casi denunciati. It is estimated that the real number of cases is five to ten times higher than the number of cases reported.
  In effetti, il numero di persone colte in flagranza di reato è minimo rispetto al numero reale di atti di inquinamento deliberati. The number of people caught in the act is actually minimal compared with the real number of deliberate acts of pollution.

Definition of real number

• 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 floating-point number

Examples

• Every integer is a real number, but not vice versa.
• Even if you pass sqrt an integer, it returns a real number.

Related words

• real numbers
• surreal number
• real number line
• set of real numbers
• binary real number