Game Development Reference
In-Depth Information
chapter 2
Number Systems
and Properties
This chapter introduces you to concepts relating to how you identify and talk
about numbers. Not all numbers are the same. Even when they are the same, you
can organize and represent them in different ways. The primary number systems
consist of counting numbers, whole numbers, integers, rational numbers, irra-
tional numbers, and real numbers. In addition to systems of numbers, you
investigate the commutative, associative, and distributive properties of numbers.
Further, you explore how combinations of positive and negative numbers affect
the outcomes of your calculations. With this prospect in view, this chapter offers
the following topics, among others:
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Natural or counting numbers
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Whole numbers
Integers
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Rational and irrational numbers
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Real numbers
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Number properties
Inverses and identities of numbers
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Multiplication and division involving negative and positive numbers
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