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#1 2009-06-09 11:40:16

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Is It Irrational?

Made a new page: Is It Irrational?

It only deals with square root irrationalities, though.

Comments, bug reports and suggestions please smile


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#2 2009-06-09 19:22:59

JaneFairfax
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Re: Is It Irrational?

The is a neat way of discovering if the square root of a number is irrational or not.

The is a typo in that sentence. tongue

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#3 2009-06-09 19:36:53

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Re: Is It Irrational?

Thanks Jane.


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#4 2009-06-13 18:47:13

Jai Ganesh
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Re: Is It Irrational?

The page is very good.
I feel it should include irrational numbers of greatest importance in mathematics, namely pi, e and phi.


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#5 2009-06-13 19:56:45

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Re: Is It Irrational?

I talk about them on the general page on Irrational Numbers, but provide no discussion on why they are irrational (which I should).

ALSO, I have the awkward 2[sup]2[/sup]/1 = 2[sup]2[/sup]/1[sup]2[/sup] ... which should be reduced to 2[sup]2[/sup] ... but then it doesn't look like a rational number.


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