Sentences with phrase «of irrational numbers»

The teacher engages students in a mini-lesson to extend their understanding of irrational numbers as possible measures of length.

That means that real numbers include zero and the other integers, all the rest of the rational numbers, and each and every one of the infinity of irrational numbers, too.

I actually think that being an atheist is an evolutionary must, like the «discovery» of zero (it took people a few generations to accept it), of irrational numbers (guess why they call them irrational) and the realization that the world is not flat.

Not exact matches

«He has nothing but phony and nonspecific evidence to support his irrational belief, which runs contrary to the stunning number of verifiable counterfactuals.»

Wanda Group, along with a number of China's biggest conglomerates including HNA Group and Fosun International - has seen higher levels of scrutiny on its finances and debt over the past year as Beijing clamps down on what it sees as «irrational» overseas acquisitions.

One Problem, Multiple Causes Any number of factors, from easy money to irrational exuberance to speculation to policy - driven market distortions, may have a hand in the inflation and bursting of bubbles.

Religion is the most irrational thing that human created... The number of crazy religious zealots america's got is insane, you guys should rebuild your education system from the start.

It's also irrational to think that the number of people involved makes their belief the slightest bit more logical or rational.

A large number of current and former female employees at the Premier League are wondering if they ever appeared in any of these emails, if their boss thinks their chromosomes make them irrational, if they might once have been nicknamed Edna.

However, you don't need to be a radical feminist to realise there are a number of valid and legitimate objections to be made to the report — objections that Miller is currently dismissing as irrational anti-trans prejudice.

It may still be economically irrational, but I think a substantial number of people would find it persuasive.

And well... one can only hope that the number of irrational voters «for» equal the number of irrational voters «against» and that at the end both compensate: - D

A number of fellow Democrats and journalists who covered Spitzer as gubernatorial candidate recalled instances where he'd acted like an irrational bully and demonstrated a taste for abuse of power.

Since φ is an irrational number and the number of petals, spirals, or stamens in any plant or flower has to be a whole number, nature «rounds off» to the nearest whole number.

These consist of the rationals and the irrationals — numbers like the square root of 2, and pi, whose decimal expansion never ends and never trails off in a fixed, repeating pattern.

(And just as you can write irrational real numbers as infinitely long, nonrepeating decimals, you can designate real, irrational itches by using infinitely long, nonrepeating strings of ups and downs.)

But surprisingly, mathematicians have been completely at sea when trying to prove that the digits of pi — or any other important irrational number for that matter — are truly random.

In it, Pincus and Rudolf Kalman, a mathematician at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich, Switzerland, calculated the ApEn of various irrational numbers.

Mathematicians often depend on irrational numbers like, e (the basis of natural logarithms), and 2 to give them an unpredictable stream of digits.

The more the player resets the game without saving, the angrier he gets, eventually reaching the point where he forces the player to perform a number of irrational, absurd actions, such as reciting specific lines word by word, or triggering a «fake» reset out of spite towards the player.

Students will learn that the sum of a rational number and an irrational number is irrational and that the product of a nonzero rational number and an irrational number is irrational.

It goes into a lot of detail on what radicals are, and most importantly the difference between irrational and rational numbers.

Gives examples of sqrt (2), pi and e as irrational numbers.

It could be used as a way to study the pedagogy of teaching the Pythagorean Theorem or irrational numbers.

In resolving a misconception about irrational numbers as lengths, the module addresses both these standards and extends students» understanding of 8.

This module focuses on how a teacher and her students resolve a misconception about irrational numbers as possible lengths of line segments.

The irrationals: A story of numbers you can't count on.

Same story as with FPA and Aston: in response to increasingly irrational activity in small cap investing (e.g., the numbers of firms being acquired at record high earnings levels), Intrepid is concentrated in a handful of undervalued sectors and cash.

Investigating philosophical and mathematical theories, Bochner examined the conventions, codes, and grammars we routinely use to grasp the external world, playing with cognitive strategies of counting, measuring, and ordering, using rationalising systems such as numbers, measurements and definitions to explore the irrational nature of being.

Pure irrational nonsense just like the ideas on the number of «civilizations» in the galaxy and the results of a nuclear exchange in the 1980s.

We can find climate scientists who give lower estimates of climate's sensitivity to CO2 whose arguments are better grounded in science than any number of eco-warriors whose arguments are irrational, emotional, and lack any sense of proportion.

To suppose that a view held by a minority is more likely to be correct than a conflicting view held by a majority, on the basis of no other information other than the numbers holding each view, is irrational.

FIPO sought to appeal the CAT's judgment on a number of grounds including that the CAT had reached irrational conclusions on issues such as fee capping, top - up fees and consumer choice.

CBT has been helpful for those suffering from Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), anger issues, high anxiety, irrational fears and a number of other traits.

J. Ryan Fuller: Really, the beginning, in the mid-50's when he started off with a much larger number of irrational beliefs and then changing over time, incorporating more of an emphasis on behavior and things like that.