What kind of rational number is 0?

1 Answer
Jan 21, 2015

What do you mean, exactly?

A number \alpha is said to be rational if there exist two integer numbers n and m such that \alpha=\frac{m}{n}. In particular, all integer numbers are rational numbers (which is what we mean when we say that \mathbb{Z}\subset \mathbb{Q}), because you can choose m=\alpha and n=1. And 0 is no different from all other integers: you can pick m=0, and for any n \ne 0 you have that \frac{m}{n}=\frac{0}{n}=0, and so 0 is a rational number. If you can explain what you exactly meant with "what kind of rational", I'll be glad to answer:)