Sentences with phrase «than rational numbers»

Mathematically, a black hole is a so - called singularity — a place where space and time become so distorted that the equations of general relativity yield infinities, rather than rational numbers, as solutions.

For example, there are more irrational numbers than rational numbers.

Not exact matches

Each point is specifiable with a specific rational number, but there are more points than we can actually specify.

He had proven that the infinity of the continuum of real numbers was «denser» than that of the integers; unlike that of the rational numbers, it could not be counted.

If we view women as rational voters who likely weigh any number of different issues that they find important before making a decision on a slate of candidates, than this example is anything but puzzling.

There are a number of potential explanations for this finding, including a limited supply of effective teachers (it's rational to keep a mediocre teacher if the likely replacement will be no better), a lack of administrator ability to discern teacher quality (their observations are less predictive of value - added than those of outside observers), or a simple unwillingness to make the unpleasant decision of firing someone.

The time preservice teachers in the LLMT group spent on these activities was spent by the control group learning to teach mathematics topics of the K - 6 curriculum other than whole numbers and operations and rational numbers.