irrational
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- adjective
- /ɪˈræʃənl/
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irracional
- Now there is an irrational number that is the most irrational number, by which I mean it can't be approximated by fractions very well.
- irrational number
- rational and irrational
Maybe a Nash equilibrium is comprised of irrational numbers, which I cannot specify.
- Maybe a Nash equilibrium is comprised of irrational numbers, which I cannot specify.
- OK, so and the one of the features about irrational numbers is that they're decimal expansion because they're not a quotient of two whole numbers.
- But so then on the topic of irrational numbers, do you do you see, do you see programming?
Examples
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OK, so and the one of the features about irrational numbers is that they're decimal expansion because they're not a quotient of two whole numbers.
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Numbers like pi and e are classified as irrational because they cannot be written as the ratio of two integers.
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Then we're going to have two real irrational roots.
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So that's going to be two real irrational numbers.
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Because pi is an "irrational" number, you can't represent it as a fraction made up of two whole numbers.
Academic text (2004) -
Irrational numbers opened the door to the baroque world of the Mandelbrot set.
Academic text (2004) -
Cantor showed that the irrational numbers outnumber the rational ones by a factor of roughly infinity.
Blog text (15) -
The square root of 2 is an example of an irrational number, as it cannot be expressed as a fraction.
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An irrational number cannot be represented exactly as a simple fraction, such as 1/3 or 4/5.
Antonyms
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A number that cannot be written as a fraction, for example π or √2
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Etymology
Irrational comes from the Latin parts ir- 'not' and ratio 'a relationship of numbers' or 'a fraction'. So in math an irrational number is 'not a ratio' and cannot be written as a simple fraction, as with Pi.