The answer depends on the context. There are opposite numbers that can be the additive inverses, or multiplicative inverses.
reciprocals, multiplicative inverses
reciprocals or multiplicative inverses
Numbers whose product is one is called multiplicative inverses.
Basically, if numbers "a" and "b" are multiplicative inverses, it means that their product is equal to 1.
Rational numbers and Real Numbers. The multiplicative inverses of integers are not integers.
The answer depends on the context. There are opposite numbers that can be the additive inverses, or multiplicative inverses.
reciprocals, multiplicative inverses
All rational numbers, with the exception of zero (0), have a multiplicative inverse. In fact, all real numbers (again, except for zero) have multiplicative inverses, though the inverses of irrational numbers are themselves irrational. Even imaginary numbers have multiplicative inverses (the multiplicative inverse of 5i is -0.2i - as you can see the inverse itself is also imaginary). Even complex numbers (the sum of an imaginary number and a real number) have multiplicative inverses (the inverse of [5i + 2] is [-5i/29 + 2/29] - similar to irrational and imaginary numbers, the inverse of a complex number is itself complex). The onlynumber, in any set of numbers, that does not have a multiplicative inverse is zero.
Reciprocals, or multiplicative inverses
reciprocals or multiplicative inverses
Numbers whose product is one is called multiplicative inverses.
3 and 1/3 reciprocals multiplicative inverses
Basically, if numbers "a" and "b" are multiplicative inverses, it means that their product is equal to 1.
The answer depends on the context for opposition: the additive inverses are whole numbers but the multiplicative inverses are not (except in the case of -1 and +1).
They are called multiplicative inverses or reciprocals of each other.
The property of reciprocals as multiplicative inverses.