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单词 Rational Number
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Rational Number

A number that can be expressed as a Fraction where and are Integers and , iscalled a rational number with Numerator and Denominator . Numbers which are not rational are calledIrrational Numbers. Any rational number is trivially also an Algebraic Number.


For , , and any different rational numbers, then


is the Square of a rational number (Honsberger 1991). The probability that a random rationalnumber has an Even Denominator is 1/3 (Beeler et al. 1972, Item 54).

See also Algebraic Integer, Algebraic Number, Anomalous Cancellation, Denominator, Dirichlet Function, Fraction, Integer,Irrational Number, Numerator, Quotient, Transcendental Number


References

Beeler, M.; Gosper, R. W.; and Schroeppel, R. HAKMEM. Cambridge, MA: MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, Memo AIM-239, Feb. 1972.

Courant, R. and Robbins, H. ``The Rational Numbers.'' §2.1 in What is Mathematics?: An Elementary Approach to Ideas and Methods, 2nd ed. Oxford, England: Oxford University Press, pp. 52-58, 1996.

Honsberger, R. More Mathematical Morsels. Washington, DC: Math. Assoc. Amer., pp. 52-53, 1991.


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