document.write( "Question 251396: {, 40, 36, 34.46}\r
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\n" ); document.write( "\n" ); document.write( "which is not arrational #s 1 2 3 or 4 \n" ); document.write( "
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document.write( "All those are rational numbers because they are all terminating\r\n" );
document.write( "decimals.  Irrational numbers are non-terminating non-repeating decimals,\r\n" );
document.write( "like this\r\n" );
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document.write( "1.01001000100001000001000001···\r\n" );
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document.write( "where that keeps going forever. It never repeats the same\r\n" );
document.write( "block of digits because each block gets one more 0 than\r\n" );
document.write( "the previous block.  \r\n" );
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document.write( "Other examples of irrational numbers are \"pi\", \"sqrt%282%29\", \r\n" );
document.write( "\"sqrt%283%29\", \"root%287%2C29%29\".  When expressed as a decimal\r\n" );
document.write( "those will never repeat the same block of digits forever.\r\n" );
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