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Recent Examples on the Web With a rational number—one with an end—the layers of fractions will terminate, or run out, eventually. — Popular Mechanics, 21 Feb. 2021 This interminable variety can’t be divided by a rational number. — Ephrat Livni, Quartz, 14 Mar. 2020 In other words, an L-function over the set of rational numbers, which is one of the ground-floor functions studied in complex space, ends up being a particular kind of integral complement that can be plotted more easily. — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 2 Mar. 2020 But rational numbers are actually rare among all numbers. — Quanta Magazine, 14 Aug. 2019 But rational numbers are actually rare among all numbers. — Quanta Magazine, 14 Aug. 2019 But rational numbers are actually rare among all numbers. — Wired, 18 Aug. 2019 The rank is a measurement that tells you something about how many of the solutions to that equation are rational numbers as opposed to irrational numbers. — Quanta Magazine, 31 Oct. 2018 Over the past decade Kim has described a very new way of looking for patterns in the seemingly patternless world of rational numbers. — Quanta Magazine, 1 Dec. 2017

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“Rational number.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/rational%20number. Accessed 14 Jun. 2021.

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