I know about a way Greeks arrived at the existence of irrational numbers by showing that sometimes two line segments can be incommensurable.
And about a simple way by which it can be shown that some numbers are irrational, for example, as is usually shown that $\sqrt2$ is irrational.
Also, it can be shown that some numbers are transcendental and because all rationals are algebraic that shows that there are some non-rational, that is, irrational numbers.
And also there is a way that shows that all rational numbers have periodic expansion in every base and since there are non-periodic expansions that also shows the existence of irrationals.
And there is countability/uncountability way.
Are there some other ways?
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