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Recent Examples on the Web Take, for example, Pi, which is an irrational number. — Popular Mechanics, 21 Feb. 2021 Continued fractions for an irrational number, like Pi, go on ad infinitum. — Popular Mechanics, 21 Feb. 2021 With an irrational number, those nested layers will go on forever. — Popular Mechanics, 21 Feb. 2021 This irrational number shows up in the craziest places. — Rhett Allain, Wired, 13 Mar. 2020 This irrational number, which begins 1.618, is found in certain spirals, golden rectangles and now the relative speeds of two mysterious stellar processes. — Quanta Magazine, 10 Mar. 2015 And on this day, math enthusiasts around the world celebrate the irrational number. — Francisco Guzman And Saeed Ahmed, CNN, 14 Mar. 2020 Real examples and applications are messy, with ugly roots made of decimals or irrational numbers. — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 6 Dec. 2019 The vast majority are irrational numbers, never-ending decimals that cannot be written as fractions. — Wired, 18 Aug. 2019

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“Irrational number.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/irrational%20number. Accessed 17 Jun. 2021.

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