That's the second driest on the books, behind May 1964 when only 0.09 inches fell in the Lehigh Valley. For the year so far, the Valley had only 11 inches of rain â down from the normal 16 inches. It doesn't help that temperatures are creeping up. The average temperature this month is 65.4 degrees â 6 degrees above normal. It's been a very warm and dry month, Meola said.
Rational numbers sound like they should be very sensible numbers. In fact, they are. Rational numbers are simply numbers that can be written as fractions or ratios (this tells you where the term rational comes from). The hierarchy of real numbers looks something like this:
Never True In mathematics, an irrational number is any real number that is not a rational numberâthat is, it is a number which cannot be expressed as a fraction m/n, where m and n are integers, with n non-zero. Informally, this means numbers that cannot be represented as simple fractions.