Hippasus, However Pythagoras could not accept the existence of Irrational Numbers, because he believed that all numbers had perfect values. But he could not disprove Hippasus' "irrational numbers" and so Hippasus was thrown overboard and drowned.
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No. For example, 20.5 is irrational; indeed it was one of the first irrational numbers to be discovered.
properties of irrational numbers
The Real numbers
-- There's an infinite number of rational numbers. -- There's an infinite number of irrational numbers. -- There are more irrational numbers than rational numbers. -- The difference between the number of irrational numbers and the number of rational numbers is infinite.
No. If it was a rational number, then it wouldn't be an irrational number.