REAL NUMBERS VOCABULARY
Across
- 1. a decimal which can be expressed in a finite number of figures or for which all figures to the right of some place are zero
- 6. not terminating or ending
- 9. – All rational and irrational numbers. Real numbers are any point on the number line, so if you can plot it, it is a real number.
- 10. – Are whole numbers that also include all the negative whole numbers. So they are as small as -infinity and as big as infinity.Integers do not include fractions or decimals.
Down
- 2. the distance from zero to any number
- 3. This is all the counting numbers and also the number 0. So start at 0 and count up from there. Again there is no end to how big a number can get.It goes to infinity.
- 4. – Are numbers that you make by dividing one integer by another integer (but not dividing by 0). They also include terminating fractions and decimals. Terminating means that it has an end.2.457 is a terminating decimal. ½ is a terminating fraction.
- 5. These numbers are all positive and start with the number 1 and go up from there. There is no end to how big the number is
- 7. – Any number that is NOT a rational number. That is numbers that have a repeating fraction or decimal. Pi is a complex number. It never ends. 1/3 is a repeating fraction.
- 8. A straight line where every point on the line represents a number.