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The ancient greek mathematician Pythagorasbelieved that all numbers were rational (could be written as a fraction), but one of his students Hippasus proved (using geometry, it is thought) that you could not represent the square root of 2 as a fraction, and so it was irrational.

A rational number is a number that can be written as a simple fraction (i.e. as a ratio).

Example 1.5 is a rational number because 1.5 = 3/2(it can be written as a fraction).

A rational number is a number that can be in the form p/q where p and q are integers and q is not equal to zero.

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It was probably the first person who tried to share a mass of food between some people.

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