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Explore natural numbers, integers, rational, and irrational numbers with examples and definitions. Learn how to distinguish between these number types and their properties.
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Natural Numbers • Natural numbers: 1,2,3… • By any other name Counting numbers
Whole Numbers • Just add 0 in the mix • Whole numbers: 0, 1, 2, 3…
Integers • Natural numbers, their opposites and zero • Integers: …-3, -2, -1, 0,1,2,3…
Some of the Numbers In-between • Rational numbers: 2/3, -31/2 0.3333… • Can be written as a ratio of two integers. • Repeating decimals, terminating decimals and fractions
Some of the Numbers In-between • Irrational Numbers • 3. 45455455545555… has a pattern but doesn’t repeat. It isn’t rational. • It can’t be written like a fraction. • Square root of 2, Pi and e are also IRRATIONAL
Pi Rational or Irrational .09 0 -8 ⅜ 2.010010001….