What is the difference between an irrational number and an integer?

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Lydia Howe

13 November, 05:02

What is the difference between an irrational number and an integer?

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An irrational number is any real number that cannot be expressed as a ratio a/b, where a and b are integers, with b non-zero, and is therefore not a rational number. An integer is any real whole number. Basically, this means that an irrational number cannot be represented as a simple fraction.