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Rationals

Rationals
represents the domain of rational numbers, as in .
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  • evaluates immediately only if x is a numeric quantity.
  • Simplify can be used to try to determine whether an expression corresponds to a rational number.
  • The domain of integers is taken to be a subset of the domain of rationals.
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Basic Examples   (3)
is a rational number:
A sum of rational numbers is a rational number:
Find rational solutions of an equation:
is a rational number:
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A sum of rational numbers is a rational number:
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Find rational solutions of an equation:
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Scope   (4)
Test domain membership of a numeric expression:
Make domain membership assumptions:
Specify the default domain over which Reduce should work:
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