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RealField -- the class of all real fields

Description

A real number ring is a ring whose elements are real numbers of variable precision.

For the programmer

The object RealField is a type, with ancestor classes InexactField < EngineRing < Ring < Type < MutableHashTable < HashTable < Thing.

The source of this document is in Macaulay2Doc/doc_rings.m2:452:0.