Irrational / Rational Numbers and Recurring Decimals Every number is either rational or irrational, whether large or small, negative or positive.

Irrational numbers are real numbers that, when expressed as a decimal, go on forever after the decimal and never repeat. (Image credit: Shutterstock) ...

It’s that the golden ratio, among all irrational numbers, is the most irrational one. What can that mean? Either a number is the ratio of two whole numbers or it isn’t*.

Therefore, all of these rational and irrational numbers, including fractions, are considered real numbers. Real numbers that include decimal points are known as floating point numbers because the ...

A number like 1/7 needs infinitely many decimals to write down - 0.1428571428571… - but the numbers repeat themselves every six places, making it easy to understand.

Is π really irrational? Yes, really really. It is completely, unequivocally and blatantly not a rational number. The interesting question for me, and one I've accepted I'll never know the answer ...