Asaris: That's different to it being expressed by an infinately long ratio of integers. 1/3 is fairly short. But yes, I was being a bit facetious. I'm not interested in our labelling a number rational or irrational - it really makes no difference to the number, only in the way we express and describe the concept of quantity and ratio. To say an irrational number doesn't exist doesn't make any sense, and, if it did, it doesn't change anything, those numbers we are referring to are still the same, we've just decided to use a different label to describe them.
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