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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 
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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. 
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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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