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What is an irrational number?

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Answer: In mathematics, the irrational numbers are all the real numbers which are not rational numbers, the latter being the numbers constructed from ratios of integers.

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Answer: An Irrational Number is a real number that cannot be written as a simple fraction. Irrational means not Rational. For example, the square root of 2 is an irrational number because it cannot be written as a ratio of two integers.

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