Number Systems

Natural Numbers: N = { 1, 2, 3, …}

Whole Numbers: W = { 0, 1, 2 , 3, ...}

Integers: I = {….. -3, -2, -1, 0, 1, 2, 3, ...}

Number Systems Cont…
Rational Numbers:
a 
Q   | a,b  I,b  0 
b 
Irrational Numbers: Q = {non-terminating,
non-repeating decimals}
Real Numbers: R = {all rational and irrational}

Imaginary Numbers: i = {sq. roots of negative numbers}

Complex Numbers: C = {real and imaginary numbers}

 Imaginary Numbers
Q: Irrational Numbers
Complex Numbers
Real Numbers

I
Examples
 Natural #s: {1,…67,…280,…}
 Whole #s: {0,1,2,…}
 Integers: {…-899,-2,0,1989,…}
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 Rational #s: ½, 1/9, 0.33
(terminating or __
repeating decimals)
 Irrational #s: √7,  = 3.14159265
3

3589 7932384626433832795…
(non-terminating, non-repeating)
REAL
NUMBERS
Two Kinds of Real
Numbers

 Rational Numbers

 Irrational Numbers
Rational Numbers
A rational number is a real
number that can be written as a
ratio of two integers.
 A rational number written in
decimal form is terminating or
repeating.
Examples of Rational
Numbers
16 -8
1/2 1.3333…
3.56 - 3/4
Irrational Numbers
 An irrational number is a
number that cannot be written
as a ratio of two integers.
 Irrational numbers written as
decimals are non-terminating
and non-repeating.
Examples of Irrational
Numbers
 Square roots of non-  Pi
perfect “squares”

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Integers

One of the subsets of

rational numbers
What are integers?
 Integers are the whole numbers and their
opposites.
 Examples of integers are
6
-12
0
186
-934
 Integers are rational numbers because
they can be written as fraction with 1 as
the denominator.
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Inequality
Inequality is the relationship notated by <,>,
≤, ≥ and ≠.

Some ways of writing inequality can be seen

as follow