Question

Express as rational or irrational root 4

Answer 1

Answer:

The necessary numbers are the rationals and irrationals. But let us start at the beginning.

The following numbers of arithmetic are the counting-numbers or, as they are called, the natural numbers:

1,  2,  3,  4,  and so on.

(At any rate, those are their Arabic numerals.)

If we include 0, we have the whole numbers:

0,  1,  2,  3,  and so on.

And if we include their algebraic negatives, we have the integers:

0,  ±1,  ±2,  ±3,  and so on.

± ("plus or minus") is called the double sign.

The following are the square numbers, or the perfect squares:

1   4   9   16   25   36   49   64, and so on.

They are the numbers 1· 1,  2· 2,  3· 3,  4· 4,  and so on.