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Klear@sh.itjust.works 4 months agoI know all of that, but it’s still misleading. It’s not a dumb name by any means, but it still causes confusion often (as evidenced by many comments here)
Comment on I just cited myself.
Klear@sh.itjust.works 4 months agoI know all of that, but it’s still misleading. It’s not a dumb name by any means, but it still causes confusion often (as evidenced by many comments here)
pyre@lemmy.world 4 months ago
fair enough, but i think the confusion for that commenter comes from a misunderstanding of the definition of the mathematical concept rather than the meaning of the English word. they just think irrational numbers are those that have infinite decimal digits, which is not the definition.