Sentence examples for irrational number from inspiring English sources
noun
Any real number that cannot be expressed as a ratio of two integers.
- The square root of a positive integer is an irrational number unless the positive integer is a perfect square, in which case the square root will also be a positive integer.
The square root of two (√2) is an irrational number.
Little wonder mathematicians call it an irrational number.
Dean Burnett has an irrational number of Twitter followers, so why not join them?
Irrational number, any real number that cannot be expressed as the quotient of two integers.
Remember, π is an irrational number, which means that it has an infinite number of decimal places.
Of course, given that pi is an irrational number, Life of Pi has not, in fact, sold exactly pi copies.
Pi is an irrational number and as such the decimal expansion does not terminate nor does it repeat.
Each irrational number can be expressed as an infinite decimal expansion with no regularly repeating digit or group of digits.
An irrational number can't be expressed as a fraction composed of whole numbers, and, furthermore, its digits go to infinity without repeating periodically.
While pi is indeed an irrational number — it can't be expressed as a fraction made of whole numbers — more important, it can't be expressed ****with finite algebra.
There is simply no way to represent any irrational number as the ratio of two whole numbers; it can't be done.
