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irrational
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It is hard to introduce (or review) fractions, and present convincing examples of numbers that are not fractions, namely, irrationals.
Aleph-one counts all the real numbers--the rationals plus the irrationals such as pi and the square root of z.
Given the fact that the interval between 1 and the square root of 2 is less than 1/2, it might seem unfathomable that the numbers in this interval contain an uncountably infinite set of irrationals.
 
 
 
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