extended real number system

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English

Noun

extended real number system (plural real number systems)

  1. (mathematics) The real number system adjoined with two extra symbols: and −∞, inheriting the ordering of the real number system, and defining −∞ to be less than any real number, and ∞ to be larger than any real number.