SOLUTION: Is 1.4242242224... A natural number, whole number, interger, rational number, or irrational number ?

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Question 984259: Is 1.4242242224... A natural number, whole number, interger, rational number, or irrational number ?
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Depends on what your ellipsis at the end of the number means, but since you cannot represent an irrational number exactly with a decimal fraction representation no matter how many digits you express, this number is rational.

By the way, there is no such thing as an interger.

John

My calculator said it, I believe it, that settles it