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Old 5th August 2015, 03:08 AM   #268
Craig B
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Originally Posted by Pixel42 View Post
Rational numbers are finite, irrational numbers are infinite. The word 'should' is inapplicable.
Somebody should have told the Pythagoreans that.
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The discovery of irrational numbers is said to have been shocking to the Pythagoreans, and Hippasus is supposed to have drowned at sea, apparently as a punishment from the gods for divulging this.
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