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This entry was posted in Uncategorised on May 28, 2014 by Ben Sparks.

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Random Factoid

Irrational

What did e say to i? "Get real..."

The square root of 2 was probably the first number to be recognised as irrational. Probably by the Greeks, although rumour has it that they weren’t too happy about it at first. Poor old Hippasus.

I talk about the story in my Creation Of Number talk.

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