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Continued radicals
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 01 August 2016
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Expressions like
are known as continued radicals and they occur frequently in the mathematical literature, if only because of their orderly structure and their close links with continued fractions. But it’s worth bringing them out again here because they can make very interesting classroom exercises on sequences, and they lead to unusual ways of expressing π and the golden ratio, etc.
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