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Incommensurate

Two lengths are called incommensurate or incommensurable if their ratio cannot be expressed as a ratio of whole numbers. Irrational Numbers and Transcendental Numbers are incommensurate with the integers.

See also Irrational Number, Pythagoras's Constant, Transcendental Number




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1999-05-26