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Artur Avila and Svetlana Jitomirskaya (“zhih-TOH-mer-sky-uh”) proved that if the frequency of the almost Mathieu (“maht-YEW”) operator has this property, Hofstadter’s butterfly is a Cantor set, resolving the “ten martini problem.” For the tent map with parameter 2 and Arnold’s cat map, inputs with this property give rise to [emphasize] non-periodic behavior. This property names a set of rotations that are (10[1])ergodic. A “measure” named for this property (-5[1])is at least 2 for numbers with this (-5[1])property, per Dirichlet’s (“dee-ree-KLAY’s”) approximation theorem. (-5[1])Zeta of 3 (-5[1])has this property, (-5[1])as shown (10[1])by Roger (10[1]-5[1])Apéry (10[1]-5[1])(“ah-pay-REE”). Real (-5[1])roots of integer-coefficient monic polynomials are either integers or numbers (10[2])with this property, (10[1]-5[2])the set of which is denoted by the expression “R backslash Q.” (10[4])For 10 points, (10[2])name (10[1])this property of numbers that [emphasize] cannot (10[1])be expressed as one integer over another. (10[2])■END■ (10[7])

ANSWER: irrational [or irrationality; accept irrational rotation or irrationality measure; reject “real” or “transcendental”]
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Rasheeq AzadNorth Carolina BHarvard5810
Simon GorbatyDukeVirginia65-5
Alex AkridgeIndianaChicago B73-5
David BassJohns HopkinsBerkeley A78-5
Geoffrey WuColumbia APurdue81-5
Conor ThompsonIowa StateNorthwestern84-5
Skand ParvatikarArizona StateOttawa8610
Mitchell ShaddenTexasMinnesota A88-5
Asha BasuMcGillTruman State8810
Yared TadesseCornell BChicago D8910
Richard NiuCornell AWUSTL A89-5
Max BrodskyIllinoisMaryland90-5
Jeremy CummingsWUSTL BToronto B10010
Akshay SeetharamClaremont CollegesYale B10010
Henry CafaroChicago BIndiana10310
Mattias EhatammWaterlooChicago A103-5
Tim MorrisonStanfordNorth Carolina A103-5
Danny HanPennFlorida11510
Matthew SiffYale AMichigan11510
Kunaal ChandrashekarToronto ANYU11510
Liam StarnesChicago CSouth Carolina11510
Urbas EkkaMinnesota BBerkeley B11810
Aum MundheRutgersColumbia B11810
Quentin MotGeorgia TechBrown11910
Aidan FeinVanderbiltKentucky12610
Swapnil GargBerkeley AJohns Hopkins13310
Brian LaiVirginiaDuke13310
Paul LeeWUSTL ACornell A13410
Andrew SalijNorthwesternIowa State13410
Isaac MammelMarylandIllinois13410
Eylon CaplanPurdueColumbia A13410
Shardul RaoMinnesota ATexas13410
Vincent DuNorth Carolina AStanford13410
Ned TagtmeierChicago AWaterloo13410