Assertion: real number's representation | /r/HasProperty | number
Facets:
value: by use of a decimal point
type: MANNER
Source sentences:
text: Once one had the concept of that the decimal representation of numbers (which we learned during the Renaissance from the Arab world) could include numbers that are not integers, by use of a decimal point and allowing digits to the right of that decimal point, then it would be only a small step (and here I speak speculatively, and not as one who knows the history) to move on to the possibility that numbers written in decimal form could continue to an infinite number of decimal places.