Health Sciences 2801A/B Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Linear Continuum, Preposition And Postposition, Phoneme
26 Dec 2016
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There are different families of numbers: natural numbers, whole numbers, integers, rationals, irrationals, real numbers, and others. The set of natural numbers is a basic family of counting numbers that consists of 1, 2, The set of whole numbers is composed of zero and the natural numbers. The set of integers consists of zero, the natural numbers, and the negative counterparts of the natural numbers. The natural numbers, whole numbers, and integers are used to count countable things. In the grammar of a language, countable things are represented by countable nouns. A more abstract definition of a number is that it is a point on a linear continuum, or number line. Every point on this continuum is a real number. The set of real numbers is composed of rational numbers and irrational numbers. 1. 25) or begins to repeat a sequence of one or more digits (such as.
