Both Uses of
irrational
in
Childhood's End
- Now that so many of its psychological problems had been removed, humanity was far saner and less irrational.†
Chpt 6 *irrational = unreasonable
- There seemed no limit to what Nature could do if she was pressed, and Jan felt an irrational pleasure at discovering something which the Overlords would not attempt.†
Chpt 22
Definitions:
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(1)
(irrational) not reasonable
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) meaning too rare to warrant focus:
More rarely, irrational numbers in mathematics are numbers that cannot be expressed as a fraction consisting of only an integer in the numerator and denominator. For example, pi is an irrational number while 1/3 is rational.