How can I do if one Numbers is irrational?

Hello Everybody,

I have one problem, I to do if one number is irrational or rational.

For exemplo:

 I have 'pi' the answer is 'irrational'
But If I have '2345/1000' it's a 'rational'

Please Help me!

[Azzi Abdelmalek]

What is your question?

[Geoff Hayes]

yogan - are you trying to come up with an algorithm to determine whether a number (input) is rational or irrational? Is this a homework assignment?

[Walter Roberson]

What is the input form?

[Steven Lord]

Every finite double precision number you can represent in MATLAB is rational. [If you wanted to consider Inf as 1/0, -Inf as -1/0, and NaN as 0/0 and stretch the definition of rational not to exclude 0 denominators, then you could call them "rational" as well.] This includes the double precision number returned by the MATLAB function PI, which is an approximation to the ratio of a circle's circumference and its diameter.

If you had a symbolic object that you constructed WITHOUT first approximating the quantity to test as a double ... then it's still an unsolved problem, as the cyclist noted.

Answer 1

[the cyclist]

If you find such a program, enter pi * e and tell us if it is rational or irrational. You will be famous. (See, e.g., List of unsolved problems in mathematics.)

(I believe that determining whether a number is rational or irrational is an "NP-hard" problem.)

[yogan sganzerla]

Ow!

But My teacher asked to me.....Because will fall in the text!

[Walter Roberson]

You need to answer the question about what the form of the input is. For example. For example do you need to be able to say that sqrt(4) is rational but sqrt(5) is irrational? How about

5^(1/2)

and

5^-.5

? And how about

sin(pi/6)

?