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Thank you! This thread is full of people insisting on something wrong because they were taught incorrectly; an irrational number is defined in terms of integer ratios for a reason.

It's not like those people haven't worked with an irrational base before, either! Radians have an irrational base. When we talk about 2π radians, or 1/4π radians, that's exactly what we're doing.





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