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transcendental number
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transcendental number: see number number, entity describing the magnitude or position of a mathematical object or extensions of these concepts.

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transcendental number

Number that is not algebraic, in the sense that it is not the solution of an algebraic equation with rational-number coefficients. The numbers e and π, as well as any algebraic number raised to the power of an irrational number, are transcendental numbers.


transcendental number [¦tran‚sen¦dent·əl ′nəm·bər]
(mathematics)
An irrational number that is the root of no polynomial with rational-number coefficients.


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