Re:Things I Learned from a Job Hunt for a Senior Engineering...
by ShroudedNight on Tuesday April 24, 2018 @11:03PM
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From what I remember, it's simpler than that:
Assume sqrt(2) is rational and has the reduced form (x/y). Thus we are assuming that x and y are integers and that gcd(x,y) is 1. You square it and get x^2/y^2 which are somehow simultaneously coprime integers and also reducible to 2/1...
Assume sqrt(2) is rational and has the reduced form (x/y). Thus we are assuming that x and y are integers and that gcd(x,y) is 1. You square it and get x^2/y^2 which are somehow simultaneously coprime integers and also reducible to 2/1...