My book mentions commensurable. It is supposed to be a mathematics term. What does this mean. I tried Wikipedia and Google and I still don't understand it. It is used in this context "The hypotenuse of a right-angled isosceles triangle with the sides of unit length is not commensurable with the unit of length."

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anonymous · Answer

". . . in a ratio equal to a ration of integers."
from the IMac OSX Dictionary.

anonymous · Answer

Excellent, thanks for the response!