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What Is A Surd?

What Are Surds?

Rational Numbers Can be written in the form
a
b
where a and b are integers
eg
1
2
 and
3
1

Irrational Numbers Can NOT
be written in the form
a
b
where a and b are integers		  eg √2 and p

Surds Irrational numbers such as  √2, √3, √5, √6
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