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I Love Numbers, but I Hate Irrational Numbers
"I love numbers, but I hated irrational numbers," he says. "He had an irrational loathing of them." They're numbers that you can't be expressed as a fraction or a ratio. And they were on a boat one day on a cruise or something. One of his followers proved the existence of irrational numbers by saying the square root of two is one.