Gaah.
Can someone please tell me the value of this fraction. (Pretend it goes infinitely.)
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Worked at it for five minutes and got nowhere. Where did you get this from?
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I made it up. It seems to converge to rt(3) which kind of makes sense because rt(3)=1+(1+rt(3))/(2+rt(3)) but there's a problem:
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That logic implies that the numerator, 1+rt(3), should equal 2+(3+rt(3))/(5+rt(3)) and it doesn't.
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But (3+rt(3))/(5+rt(3)) = (4+(1+rt(3))/(2+rt(3)))/(6+(1+rt(3))/(2+rt(3))), which should fit, no?
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