Associations to the word «Hyperreal»

Wiktionary

HYPERREAL, adjective. Of or pertaining to philosophical hyperreality; perceivable as real by consciousness, though potentially unreal.
HYPERREAL, adjective. (mathematics) (of a number) Belonging to an extension of the real numbers containing those that cannot be produced by repeatedly adding 1; hence infinite.
HYPERREAL, noun. A hyperreal number.
HYPERREAL NUMBER, noun. (mathematics) Any of a set of numbers which extends the set of real numbers by including infinitesimals and infinities, and is used in nonstandard analysis.
HYPERREAL NUMBERS, noun. Plural of hyperreal number

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope