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Let \(A\) be a Banach algebra. If \(A\) has an identity element \(e\) with norm one then the numerical range \(V(a)\) of an element \(a\in A\) is defined by \(V(a)=\{ f(a): f\in A', f(e)=\|f\|=1\}\). The notion of the relative numerical range generalizes the concept of ordinary numerical range, which is unit dependent. The relative numerical range of \(a\in A\) relative to \(b\in A\) is defined by \(V_b(A,a)=\{ f(ab): f\in A', \|f\|=1, f(b)=\|b\|\}\). It turns out that in the case of \(b=e\), \(\|e\|=1\), \(V_b(A,a)\) reduces to \(V(a)\). The aim of this mostly survey paper is to extend the concept of a relative numerical range to locally-\(m\)-convex topological algebras. A survey of recent papers on this topic is given. For the entire collection see [Zbl 0930.00093].