• pyre@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    .333… is rational.

    at least we finally found your problem: you don’t know what rational and irrational mean. the clue is in the name.

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      9 months ago

      TBH the name is a bit misleading. Same for “real” numbers. And oh so much more so for “normal numbers”.

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        9 months ago

        not really. i get it because we use rational to mean logical, but that’s not what it means here. yeah, real and normal are stupid names but rational numbers are numbers that can be represented as a ratio of two numbers. i think it’s pretty good.