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There are only three irrationalities directly related to experimentally obs
erved quasicrystals, namely, those which appear in extensions of rational n
umbers by root5, root2, root3. In this article, we demonstrate that the alg
ebraically defined aperiodic point sets with precisely these three irration
al numbers play an exceptional role. The exceptional role stems from the po
ssibility of equivalent characterization of these point sets using one bina
ry operation.