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No. If you know some theorems about continued fractions, finding such rational numbers is easy. Just generate best rational approximations until you have one that is close enough.

See for example http://www.maths.surrey.ac.uk/hosted-sites/R.Knott/Fibonacci... or http://www.math.sunysb.edu/~tony/whatsnew/column/irrational-...



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