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To: AmishDude
Does this mean that every irrational number is also transcendental?
109 posted on 12/08/2001 4:01:52 PM PST by Faraday
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To: Faraday
No. Transcendental is a subset of irrational. I don't know how many transcendental numbers there are, whether it's the cardinality of the integers or the reals.

e and pi are the only numbers I know to be transcendental, but sqrt(n) for any n not a perfect square is irrational but not transcendental.

113 posted on 12/08/2001 4:05:36 PM PST by AmishDude
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