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irrational or rational

It will be really stupid to ask whether there are more irrational numbers or rational numbers because both are infinite, but it is quite sensible to ask this :-

If you pick a number between 1 and 2 randomly, what's the probability that it is rational?
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Because the set of the rationals is countable so its mesure is 0.

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