ARITHMETIC

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Types of Numbers

Maths Query 21-12-2024

Natural numbers

Whole numbers

Integers

Rational numbers

Irrational numbers

Real numbers

Natural Numbers

Starts from 1 and has no end

1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 ..................

 1. counting numbers

Used for

 2. ordering of things

1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 ..................

First, second, third, fourth......

Whole Numbers

Starts from 0 and has no end

0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 ..................

Example

0

all natural numbers

+

Integers

.....-3, -2, -1

Integers include negative numbers, zero and positive numbers

........ -3, -2, -1, 0, 1, 2, 3, .........

Example

1, 2, 3, .......

0

Rational Numbers

Standard form of rational numbers : p q where p and q are integers and q = 0

3 , 5 , 10, 45 2   2    2    3

Example

2.333333........................ 12.5666666....................

Rational numbers are also Terminating or non terminating repeating decimal numbers

Terminating

Non terminating repeating

1.235 236.45

Irrational Numbers

Numbers which are not rational are irrational numbers

Non terminating and non repeating

3.14159265359..................

 2 ,    3 ,    5

Real Numbers

Real numbers include all rational and irrational numbers

546.120 7.032

1.11111........................ 4560.7777777....................

 7 ,    11 ,    5

1.41421356237.................