TOPIC : NUMBER SYSTEM

MELVE FRANCIS
B.Ed,Mathematics
Mangalam College of
Education
 NUMBER SYSTEM
Natural numbers
Whole numbers
Integers
Rational number
Irrational number
Real numbers
Interval
Complex number
 The Natural Numbers

The natural (or counting) numbers

are 1,2,3,4,5, etc. There are infinitely many natural
numbers.
The set of natural numbers, {1,2,3,4,5,...} is sometimes
written N for short.

The whole numbers

The whole numbers are the natural

numbers together with 0.
 The Integers

The integers are the set of real numbers consisting of the natural
numbers, their additive inverses and zero.
{...,5,4,3,2,1,0,1,2,3,4,5,...}

The set of integers is sometimes written J or Z for short.

The sum, product, and difference of any two integers is also an integer. But this is not
true for division.
 The Rational Number

A rational number is a fraction a/b,

where a is an integer and b is an integer other than zero.

The Irrational Number

Irrational number, on the other hand, cannot be written as a

fraction with an integer numerator and denominator.
Examples of irrational numbers include 2 and .

Rational numbers and irrational numbers are mutually exclusive:

they have no numbers in common.
 The Real Numbers

The real numbers is the set of numbers

containing all of the rational numbers and
all of the irrational numbers.

The real numbers are all the numbers

on the number line.

Prime numbers

The real number which is divisible

by 1 and itself is called prime number.
 Interval

An Interval can be defined as the totality of points on a line

between two designated points or end points that may or may not be
included.

An open interval (a, b) is the set of all real numbers x such

that a < x < b.

A closed interval [a, b] is the set of all real numbers x such

that a x b.

( ) [
0
]
3
0 3
(0,3) [0,3]
 The Complex Number

A complex number is a number that

can be expressed in the form a + bi,
where a and b are real numbers, and i is
the imaginary unit, which satisfies the
equation i2 = 1.

In this expression, a is called the

real part of the complex number, and
b is called the imaginary part.

The symbol for the complex

numbers is C.
 Examples

0 - Whole, Integers, Rational, and Real

4 - Natural, Whole, Integer, Rational, Real

-9 - Integer, Rational, Real

- Irrational, Real
3/4 or 0.75 - Rational and Real

4 - Natural, Whole, Integer, Rational, Real

15 - Irrational, Real
NUMBER SYSTEM