Talk:Real number

"Real number" or "real numbers"?

I'd prefer, overall, this article to be at real numbers, rather than at the singular name. After all, unlike ordinal numbers, a single real number does not really have any property that can be expressed without referring to other real numbers, unless the (non-standard) choice of which construction to use is made.

(Note I accidentally started the other article before I noticed the singular article had already been copied over. I'm now not sure which one to turn into a redirect.)

Thoughts?

Philipp Rumpf 13:56, 3 February 2007 (CST)

I vote for 'real number'. The language of the article is not straightforward. I wish my memory was good enough to quote my second grade classmate Michael Cohen (Mike, are you out there?) ((whose father was a professor at the Institute for Advanced Study)) when he explained the term to our disapproving second grade teacher. Can you simplify the language? NancyNancy Sculerati MD 16:18, 3 February 2007 (CST)