Tuesday, March 13, 2007

Irrational number



From Wolfram Math World:


An irrational number is a number that cannot be expressed as a fraction p/q for any integers p and q. Irrational numbers have decimal expansions that neither terminate nor become periodic.
So, for example, 2/3 is rational, despite being infinitely long when represented in decimal form, because it repeats...

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