The court’s rational-basis test doesn’t require policymakers to be wise, or even reasonable. It requires only rationality— an acceptable policy goal combined with rational actions to achieve ...

Fifteen years ago as of May 18th, The Rational Optimist: How Prosperity Evolves was published. In it, prolific science writer Matt Ridley made clear – with copious evidence – that humanity's condition ...

With irrational numbers, there’s no repetition. The real distinction is that rational numbers can be written as a ratio of two integers. (Get it? ratio-nal.) And ratios are the same thing as ...

Making good decisions is not easy, and making the best possible (“optimal”) decisions is even harder. Instead, humans often use shortcuts and rules of thumb. From firm managers and ...

Abstract: The compute-and-forward (C&F) protocol in quasi-static channels normally employs lattice codes based on the rational integers ℤ, the Gaussian integers ℤ[i], or the Eisenstein integers ℤ[ω], ...

The whole world, they believed, could be described using rational numbers ... numbers—cannot be expressed as the ratio of two integers. But this realization is far from obvious.

He is a professor of economics and has raised more than $4.5 billion in investment capital. Rational behavior refers to a decision-making process that is based on making choices that result in the ...

This library implements arbitrary-precision arithmetic on big integers and on rationals ... This library is derived from Valérie Ménissier-Morain's implementation of rational arithmetic for Caml V3.1.

It is the same with the natural numbers and the integers. A similar one-to-one mapping can be found between the rational and natural numbers. As Cantor was able to show, the cardinality of the ...