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Ii

irrational number

• a real number that can be written as
a nonrepeating or nonterminating decimal but not as a fraction,
the decimal goes on forever without repeating.

EXAMPLES:
Phi, pi and the square root of any prime number are irrational numbers.
irrational number


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