How do you find a real number?

Answer 1

Here are some easy ways to find a whole lot of real numbers:

-- Count anything. Every number you speak is a real number.

-- Take pencil and paper. On one line, write any number of digits you want to.

Also, if you feel like it, put a decimal point before, after, or among the digits.

The number written on that line is a real number.

-- Find a Bingo set or a Scrabble set. All of the numbers marked on the Bingo cards, on

the Bingo caller's markers, and in the corners of the Scrabble tiles, are all real numbers.

-- Find a newspaper. Take out the Business section. Find the stock prices in it.

(May be called "Market Close" or something like that.) Every number on that

page is a real number.

-- Open up a telephone book to any white page. All of the addresses on the

left side of every column, and all of the telephone numbers on the right side

of every column, are real numbers.

-- On your next regular visit to your neighborhood branch of the public library,

go to the Reference room, and see if you can find a book there that has more

than 1,000 pages. Open it up to any page. The little number printed somewhere

along the bottom of the page, or maybe in the corner at the top, is a real number.

-- Borrow a calculator. Turn it on. One at a time, punch as many buttons as you

want to. No need to even look at the buttons. All of the numbers you see in the

display until it says ERROR or - E -are real numbers. Reset, rinse and repeat.