shopping, travel, measurements and money are the real life applications of real number system.
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The answer depends on what you wish to compare and contrast it with.
All pairs of numbers, written in the form a + bi (for example: 3 + 5i, or 7 - 2i, etc.), where the first number is called (for historical reasons) the "real part" and the second number the "imaginary part". Complex numbers can be graphed as points on a plane. They have important applications in several fields of science, arts, and pure mathematics.
Real numbers are numbers that can be found on the number line. This includes both the rational and irrational numbers. The Real Numbers did not have a name before Imaginary Numbers were thought of. They got called "Real" because they were not Imaginary.
Nearly any number you can think of is a Real Number. So 8 is a real number.
a real number is a number that can be rational or irrational