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- 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.†
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Definitions:
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(irrational) not reasonable
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(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.