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Relate real numbers to complex numbers
What is the relation between the set of real numbers and the set of complex numbers?
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Answer
The real numbers form a subset of the complex numbers: . In fact it is a proper subset.
Compare your reasoning
Every real number a is also the complex number . But i is complex and not real. This completes both Teacher blanks: “subset” and . In the source nesting, ; the real numbers include both rational and irrational values.
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