Why do we need to distinguish between rational and irrational numbers? What’s the importance of knowing where they fall between the two?
In: Mathematics
same reason you need to distinguish between sharks and piranhas.
it probably wont matter to you if you’re not doing anything in a related field, but when you do the differences are massive and it is important.
rational numbers are all number you can write as a fraction (you could write 0.153 as 153/1000, so this includes all ending decimal numbers)
while irrational are those like Pi where that isn’t possible.
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