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- www.quantamagazine.org/rational-or-not-this-basic-math-question-took-decades-to-answer-20250108/ Rational or Not? This Basic Math Question Took Decades to Answer (2025)
A "reduced fraction" is a fraction that has the smallest possible integer numerator and denominator for its value.
For example:is not a reduced fraction, because there is another fraction equal to it but with smaller numerator and denominator:
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A rational number is any number that can be expressed as the quotient or fraction \( \frac{a}{b} \), where \( a \) and \( b \) are integers, and \( b \) is not equal to zero. In other words, rational numbers include integers, finite decimals, and repeating decimals. For example: - The number \( \frac{1}{2} \) is a rational number.