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number line
noun
Mathematics.
- a straight line on which there is indicated a one-to-one correspondence between points on the line and the set of real numbers.
number line
noun
- an infinite line on which points represent the real numbers
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51Թ History and Origins
Origin of number line1
First recorded in 1955–60
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For example, the number line is infinite, regardless of whether you start it at –∞, 0 or 1.
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Even such bonkers-looking numbers, however, together with all the rational numbers, make up only a tiny fraction of the real numbers, or numbers that can appear along a number line.
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But it turns out that if you happened to pick out a number at random on a number line, you would almost certainly draw a “noncomputable” number.
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The rest of the numbers on the number line are irrational numbers.
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Imagine that the number line is a rubber band with tick marks on it.
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