Incommensurable
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"Incommensurable" in a Sentence (2 examples)
The side and diagonal of a square are incommensurable with each other; the diameter and circumference of a circle are incommensurable.
Unfortunately for Pythagoras, his theorem led at once to the discovery of incommensurables, which appeared to disprove his whole philosophy.
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