rationalize

v 1: make excuses for [syn: {apologize}, {apologise}, {excuse}, {justify}]

2: weed out unwanted or unnecessary things; "We had to lose

weight, so we cut the sugar from our diet" [syn: {cut}, {prune}]

rational

[Mathematics] a fractional number n/d, where n and d are

integers, n is the numerator and d is the denominator. The

set of all rational numbers is usually called Q.

Computers do not usually deal with rational numbers but

instead convert them to {real} numbers which are represented

(approximately in some cases) as {floating-point} numbers.

Compare {irrational}.