Outrageously Funny Word Dictionary :: Sedater

👉 In mathematics, a "sedator" is a term used to describe a number that can be expressed as a sum of two or more rational numbers. The term was introduced by the mathematician Richard Dedekind in 1872. A sedator is an irrational number because it cannot be expressed as a simple fraction (a/b where a and b are integers). This means that the decimal representation of a sedator is not finite, which makes its calculation difficult. For example: -

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