Rational Number Definition

noun
A number capable of being expressed as an integer or a quotient of integers, excluding zero as a denominator.
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Integer.

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adjective
Attributive form of rational number, noun.
Rational-number approximation.
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Other Word Forms of Rational Number

Noun

Singular:
rational number

Rational Number Sentence Examples

  • Similarly, any rational real number is distinct from the corresponding rational number.

  • If m and n are finite cardinal numbers, the rational number m/n is the relation which any finite cardinal number x bears to any finite cardinal number y when n X x = m X y.

  • Thus the rational number one, which we will denote by ' r, is not the cardinal number I; for t r is the relation I/I as defined above, and is thus a relation holding between certain pairs of cardinals.

  • In mathematical terminology, 1.62 is an irrational number because its properties don't conform to rational number expectations.

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