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by ykonstant 814 days ago
The hint for problem 5 misses the essence a bit; the inequalities you "need" are:

1) Squares of reals are non-negative;

2) integers cannot be strictly between 0 and 1.

Indeed, these two facts, masqueraded in various tricky ways, form the basis for transcendental number theory.