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  1. Path: sparky!uunet!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!caen!nic.umass.edu!risky.ecs.umass.edu!umaecs!padmanab
  2. From: padmanab@ecs.umass.edu
  3. Newsgroups: rec.puzzles
  4. Subject: Irrational numbers
  5. Message-ID: <19723.2b6495ca@ecs.umass.edu>
  6. Date: 26 Jan 93 01:37:14 GMT
  7. Lines: 14
  8.  
  9. Here is an interesting puzzle concerning 
  10. irrational numbers: 
  11.  
  12. Can you find two IRRATIONAL NUMBERS P and Q such that 
  13.  
  14.                     Q 
  15.                    P  =  rational? 
  16.  
  17. HAVE FUN!
  18.  
  19. -Prasad Padmanabhan
  20. Dept. of ECE
  21. University of Massachusetts
  22. Amherst MA 01003
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