Newsgroups: sci.math
From: hoey@AIC.NRL.Navy.Mil (Dan Hoey)
Date: 7 Oct 92 21:09:12 GMT
Subject: Re: Irrational?

The dictionary (I peeked) says that the Latin word _ratio_ means
reason, computation, or reasoning, from which we get the words ratio
and reason.  I believe that long division was a canonical example of
computation, from which come the words having to do with division, and
the rest of the words deal with thought process

So irrational numbers are numbers you can't get by dividing integers,
while irrational people are the ones who can't do the division.

Dan Hoey
Hoey@AIC.NRL.Navy.Mil