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rational numbers
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Plural of rational number
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The rational numbers Q.
One class of numbers is that of the rational numbers.
This is why they're called the "rational" numbers.
Together with the rational numbers, they form the real numbers.
The real numbers are complete; the rational numbers are not.
The Chudnovsky formula is the fastest series for pi ever found which uses rational numbers.
Thus the acceptance of numbers beyond the positive rational numbers was slow and reluctant.
In effect, there are gaps in the system of rational numbers.
Indeed, √2 can be related to the rational numbers only via an infinite process.
This was realized by Euclid, who studied the arithmetic of both rational numbers and line segments.
In a well-defined sense, then, the "length" of the set of rational numbers is zero.
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