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CNN Projects Romney wins Ill (Original Post) grantcart Mar 2012 OP
Ah, Wolf must have his 'real numbers' muriel_volestrangler Mar 2012 #1

muriel_volestrangler

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1. Ah, Wolf must have his 'real numbers'
Tue Mar 20, 2012, 08:46 PM
Mar 2012
That's all very well. Wolf Blitzer says CNN is waiting for "real numbers" before making a call. And by "real numbers," let's assume Wolf means a value that represents a quantity along a continuum, such as -5 (an integer), 4/3 (a rational number that is not an integer), 8.6 (a rational number given by a finite decimal representation), √2 (the square root of two, an algebraic number that is not rational) and π (3.1415926535..., a transcendental number).

And to think people said doing a maths degree was a waste of time. They were right: all the above was just cut and pasted from Wikipedia. Take that, maths geeks.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/mar/20/illinois-republican-primary-results-live
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