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Around A.D., which group felt the necessity of irrational numbers (especially ) for geometrical drawing?
Around A.D., which group felt the necessity of irrational numbers (especially ) for geometrical drawing?
- aIndian mathematicians
- bArabian mathematicians
- cGreek philosophers
- dChinese mathematicians
ব্যাখ্যা
Around A.D. the Greek philosophers felt the need for irrational numbers, especially , because such lengths arise naturally in geometric constructions (e.g. the diagonal of a unit square).