What do french mathematicians call a ray?

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In the USA we are taught at a young age that a ray is a line with one end, a compromise between a line and a line segment, something like $[0,\infty)$. Is there a word for this in french? I have talked to someone who is french and they did not know what a ray was.

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"On peut considérer aussi une portion de droite indéfinie dans un sens et limitée, dans l’autre, par un point. C’est ce que l’on nomme une demi-droite." Jacques Hadamard, Leçons de géométrie élémentaire, t.1, p.3 (1898). https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=msu.31293001875347;view=1up;seq=10