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The first proof of the existence of Irrational Numbers is usually attributed to a Pythagorean(possibly Hippasus of Metapontum), who probably discovered them while identifying sides of the pentagram in the fifth century BC.

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When mathematicians tried to find a rational value of sqrt(2) and failed.

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