The discovery that 2 cannot be written as a fraction is credited to:

  1. Fibonacci
  2. the Romans
  3. the Babylonians
  4. the Pythagoreans (Hippasus)
Answer

D) the Pythagoreans (Hippasus)

Members of the Pythagorean school in ancient Greece (traditionally Hippasus) found that the diagonal of a unit square, 2, is irrational. SLO M-09-A-01 · Knowledge

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