Affinely Extended Real Numbers
In mathematics, the extended real number system is obtained from the real number system \R by adding two elements denoted +\infty and -\infty that are respectively greater and lower than every real number. This allows for treating the potential infinity, potential infinities of infinitely increasing sequences and infinitely decreasing series as actual infinity, actual infinities. For example, the infinite sequence (1,2,\ldots) of the natural numbers increases ''infinitively'' and has no upper bound in the real number system (a potential infinity); in the extended real number line, the sequence has +\infty as its least upper bound and as its limit (mathematics), limit (an actual infinity). In calculus and mathematical analysis, the use of +\infty and -\infty as actual limits extends significantly the possible computations. It is the Dedekind–MacNeille completion of the real numbers. The extended real number system is denoted \overline, [-\infty,+\infty], or \R\cup\left\. When the ...
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