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minus-squareKlear@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·9 months agoTBH the name is a bit misleading. Same for “real” numbers. And oh so much more so for “normal numbers”.
minus-squarepyre@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·9 months agonot 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.
TBH the name is a bit misleading. Same for “real” numbers. And oh so much more so for “normal numbers”.
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.