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by alpple 530 days ago
Imagine you're a character in a Lord of the Rings novel. And math is the imaginary landscape that you are going on an adventure through. When a number is irrational, it is not easy to work with compared to natural numbers. So they're marking the map as a hard pass in the mountain ridge that is on your journey, assuming you want to explore that world.