p/q=(sqrt(2))

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p/q=(sqrt(2))

anonymous · Answer

not if p and q are integers

anonymous · Answer

Huh? I know what integers are, but how does that work?

anonymous · Answer

what you wrote is this 
$$\frac{p}{q}=\sqrt{2}$$ but $\sqrt{2}$ cannot be expressed as the ratio of two integers, so it does not work!

myininaya · Answer

What is the question exactly?

myininaya · Answer

Unless p and q are real then we can

anonymous · Answer

the question is what are  you doing here on a friday night, instead of being out eating pizza and drinking margaritas

anonymous · Answer

They do not have to be real.

myininaya · Answer

What are we doing with this p/q=sqrt(2) thing?
Does it say anything else in the instructions?

anonymous · Answer

Actually, I am just doing this to see if I can express irrational numbers as a ratio of any 2 numbers, therefore the numbers do not have to be real. They can be imaginary (sqrt(-x))

myininaya · Answer

$$\sqrt{2}=\frac{\sqrt{2}}{1}=\frac{2}{\sqrt{2}}$$
Can be expressed many ways

anonymous · Answer

Nice!

myininaya · Answer

But if you want p/q=sqrt(2) where p and q are integers then there is no such fraction since sqrt(2) is irrational like sat was saying

anonymous · Answer

So you cannot use 2 integers to express a ratio for an irrational number.

anonymous · Answer

Is that correct?

myininaya · Answer

That is totally right

anonymous · Answer

Ok. Bye!