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Positive real numbers
Summary
In mathematics, the set of positive real numbers, is the subset of those real numbers that are greater than zero. The non-negative real numbers, also include zero. Although the symbols and are ambiguously used for either of these, the notation or for and or for has also been widely employed, is aligned with the practice in algebra of denoting the exclusion of the zero element with a star, and should be understandable to most practicing mathematicians.
In a complex plane, is identified with the positive real axis, and is usually drawn as a horizontal ray. This ray is used as reference in the polar form of a complex number. The real positive axis corresponds to complex numbers with argument
The set is closed under addition, multiplication, and division. It inherits a topology from the real line and, thus, has the structure of a multiplicative topological group or of an additive topological semigroup.
For a given positive real number the sequence of its integral powers has three different fates: When the limit is zero; when the sequence is constant; and when the sequence is unbounded.
and the multiplicative inverse function exchanges the intervals. The functions floor, and excess, have been used to describe an element as a continued fraction which is a sequence of integers obtained from the floor function after the excess has been reciprocated. For rational the sequence terminates with an exact fractional expression of and for quadratic irrational the sequence becomes a periodic continued fraction.
The ordered set forms a total order but is a well-ordered set. The doubly infinite geometric progression where is an integer, lies entirely in and serves to section it for access. forms a ratio scale, the highest level of measurement. Elements may be written in scientific notation as where and is the integer in the doubly infinite progression, and is called the decade. In the study of physical magnitudes, the order of decades provides positive and negative ordinals referring to an ordinal scale implicit in the ratio scale.
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