number line
(noun)
A visual representation of the set of real numbers as a series of
points.
Examples of number line in the following topics:
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Absolute Value
- Absolute value can be thought of as the distance of a real number from zero.
- In mathematics, the absolute value (sometimes called the modulus) of a real number $a$ is denoted $\left | a \right |$.
- Therefore, $\left | a \right |>0$ for all numbers.
- When applied to the difference between real numbers, the absolute value represents the distance between the numbers on a number line.
- The absolute values of 5 and -5 shown on a number line.
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Magnetic Field Lines
- First, measure the strength and direction of the magnetic field at a large number of locations (or at every point in space).
- An advantage of using magnetic field lines as a representation is that many laws of magnetism (and electromagnetism) can be stated completely and concisely using simple concepts such as the "number" of field lines through a surface.
- For example, the number of field lines through a given surface is the surface integral of the magnetic field .
- Extensive exploration of magnetic fields has revealed a number of hard-and-fast rules.
- It is exactly proportional to the number of lines per unit area perpendicular to the lines (called the areal density).
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Product Line Pricing
- Line pricing is the use of a limited number of price points for all the product offerings of a vendor.
- Line pricing is the use of a limited number of prices for all the product offerings of a vendor.
- Line pricing serves several purposes that benefit both buyers and sellers.
- From the seller's point of view, line pricing holds several benefits:
- As costs change, the prices can remain the same, but the quality in the line can be changed.
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A Brief History of Basso Continuo
- (This is the original meaning of the term accompany—to accompany a bass line with chords.
- In these publications, figures(numbers above or below the bass line) were included—sometimes only for difficult or non-standard chords, and eventually for most chords, enabling more amateur musicians, as well as students, to make use of the technique.
- These bass lines with figures became known as "figured bass" lines.
- In aural dictation, transcription, and analysis, the bass line and the melody are often the most prominent (and most important) lines in a passage, and knowing how the inner voices tend to relate to the bass line and melody can aid in a number of listening and aural-analysis tasks.
- The upper part is played by the flute, the lower part is the basso continuo line, played by a keyboardist who uses the numbers below the staff (figures) to guide the chords played above this bass line.
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Product Line
- Line depth refers to the number of subcategories a category has.
- Line consistency refers to how closely related the products that make up the line are.
- The number of different categories of a company is referred to as width of product mix.
- The total number of products sold in all lines is referred to as length of product mix.
- The first is a full-line strategy while the second is called a limited line strategy.
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Slope
- Slope describes the direction and steepness of a line, and can be calculated given two points on the line.
- In mathematics, the slope of a line is a number that describes both the direction and the steepness of the line.
- Putting the equation of a line into this form gives you the slope ($m$) of a line, and its $y$-intercept ($b$).
- In other words, a line with a slope of $-9$ is steeper than a line with a slope of $7$.
- This ratio is represented by a quotient ("rise over run"), and gives the same number for any two distinct points on the same line.
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Expressive Qualities of Line
- The quality of a line refers to the character that is presented by a line in order to animate a surface to varying degrees.
- This type of line can follow any path, from sinuous curves to jagged or vertical lines.
- Expressive lines add to the overall character and feeling evoked by a work of art.
- This painting by Diego Velazquez exemplifies the artist's use of a number of different types of expressive lines.
- The expressive lines used in this sculpture are sinuous, expressing motion and struggle.
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Line Graphs
- Judge whether a line graph would be appropriate for a given data set
- A line graph is a bar graph with the tops of the bars represented by points joined by lines (the rest of the bar is suppressed).
- A line graph of these same data is shown in Figure 2.
- A line graph of the percent change in the CPI over time.
- A line graph, inappropriately used, depicting the number of people playing different card games on Wednesday and Sunday.
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Line of Best Fit
- The trend line (line of best fit) is a line that can be drawn on a scatter diagram representing a trend in the data.
- The trend line, or line of best fit, is a line that can be drawn on a scatter diagram representing a trend in the data.
- Trend lines typically are straight lines, although some variations use higher degree polynomials depending on the degree of curvature desired in the line.
- The mathematical process which determines the unique line of best fit is based on what is called the method of least squares - which explains why this line is sometimes called the least squares line.
- having the same number of data points on each side of the line - i.e., the line is in the median position;
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Emission Spectrum of the Hydrogen Atom
- The emission spectrum of atomic hydrogen is divided into a number of spectral series.
- The emission spectrum of atomic hydrogen is divided into a number of spectral series, with wavelengths given by the Rydberg formula: $\frac { 1 }{ \lambda_{vac} } =RZ^2( \frac { 1 }{ {n_1 }^{ 2 } } -\frac { 1 }{ { n_2 }^{ 2 } })$,
- For example, the 2 → 1 line is called Lyman-alpha (Ly-α), while the 7 → 3 line is called Paschen-delta (Pa-δ).
- The fine structure also results in single spectral lines appearing as two or more closely grouped thinner lines due to relativistic corrections.
- Many of the lines are very faint and additional lines can be caused by other elements (such as helium if using sunlight or nitrogen in the air).