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  2. Irrational number - Wikipedia

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    The number √ 2 is irrational.. In mathematics, the irrational numbers (in-+ rational) are all the real numbers that are not rational numbers.That is, irrational numbers cannot be expressed as the ratio of two integers.

  3. Duodecimal - Wikipedia

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    The duodecimal system, also known as base twelve or dozenal, is a positional numeral system using twelve as its base.In duodecimal, the number twelve is denoted "10", meaning 1 twelve and 0 units; in the decimal system, this number is instead written as "12" meaning 1 ten and 2 units, and the string "10" means ten.

  4. Irrationality measure - Wikipedia

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    Rational numbers have irrationality exponent 1, while (as a consequence of Dirichlet's approximation theorem) every irrational number has irrationality exponent at least 2. On the other hand, an application of Borel-Cantelli lemma shows that almost all numbers, including all algebraic irrational numbers , have an irrationality exponent exactly ...

  5. List of mathematical constants - Wikipedia

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    A mathematical constant is a key number whose value is fixed by an unambiguous definition, ... [12] 1.05946 30943 59295 26456 [OEIS ... is irrational. If true, ...

  6. List of types of numbers - Wikipedia

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    Prime number: A positive integer with exactly two positive divisors: itself and 1. The primes form an infinite sequence 2, 3, 5, 7, 11, 13, 17, 19, 23, 29, 31, ... Composite number: A positive integer that can be factored into a product of smaller positive integers. Every integer greater than one is either prime or composite.

  7. Commensurability (mathematics) - Wikipedia

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    (Recall that a rational number is one that is equivalent to the ratio of two integers.) There is a more general notion of commensurability in group theory . For example, the numbers 3 and 2 are commensurable because their ratio, ⁠ 3 / 2 ⁠ , is a rational number.

  8. Algebraic number - Wikipedia

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    Likewise, tan ⁠ 3 π / 16 ⁠, tan ⁠ 7 π / 16 ⁠, tan ⁠ 11 π / 16 ⁠, and tan ⁠ 15 π / 16 ⁠ satisfy the irreducible polynomial x 4 − 4x 3 − 6x 2 + 4x + 1 = 0, and so are conjugate algebraic integers. This is the equivalent of angles which, when measured in degrees, have rational numbers. [2] Some but not all irrational ...

  9. Real number - Wikipedia

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    This is because the set of rationals, which is countable, is dense in the real numbers. The irrational numbers are also dense in the real numbers, however they are uncountable and have the same cardinality as the reals. The real numbers form a metric space: the distance between x and y is defined as the absolute value |x − y|.