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#1 2014-03-10 02:55:16

gourish
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find the answer of this series

hi guys.... i was given a challenge to find the answer to the series that i am going to give you all now... i was asked to find it's answer in the simplest and shortest form. i actually did find it's answer but in a 'page long' form and i wanna confirm it with you guys so please try to find it's answer and tell the shortest approach to it's answer

find the value of sqroot(9*sqroot(8*sqroot(7*sqroot(6*sqroot(5*sqroot(4*sqroot(3*sqroot(2*sqroot(1)))))))))

FYI i do know that sqroot of 1 is just one but just for the consistency of the series it's there.... i hope to get it's answer pretty soon

thank you guys
cheers....:)


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#2 2014-03-10 03:43:51

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Re: find the answer of this series

Hi;

I am getting:


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#3 2014-03-11 03:40:00

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Re: find the answer of this series

yeah same here... but i used log on this series and made it easier... but i am looking for some innovative way of finding the answer


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#4 2014-03-11 03:51:14

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Re: find the answer of this series

It is not a series. A series is a sum of terms. This is a nested irrational.

Why do you suspect that there is some innovative approach as you put it?


In mathematics, you don't understand things. You just get used to them.
If it ain't broke, fix it until it is.
Always satisfy the Prime Directive of getting the right answer above all else.

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#5 2014-03-12 00:36:10

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Re: find the answer of this series

beacuse i was challenged to find one innovative and simple smart way of finding the answer to the nested irrational btw thanks for the term smile


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#6 2014-03-12 00:38:04

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Re: find the answer of this series

Hi;

That is not a lot to go on but I will keep an eye out for something.


In mathematics, you don't understand things. You just get used to them.
If it ain't broke, fix it until it is.
Always satisfy the Prime Directive of getting the right answer above all else.

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#7 2014-03-12 00:44:20

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Re: find the answer of this series

thanks i appreciate your help smile


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#8 2014-03-12 01:27:57

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Re: find the answer of this series

Looking through the literature so far I found this

and this

as being closest in form but still quite different. Also, it is called a Nested Radical not Irrational as I wrote before.


In mathematics, you don't understand things. You just get used to them.
If it ain't broke, fix it until it is.
Always satisfy the Prime Directive of getting the right answer above all else.

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#9 2014-03-12 04:38:37

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Re: find the answer of this series

oh cool! thanks bobbym.... those two forms seem quite interesting i might even challenge others to solve questions based on these... smile


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#10 2014-03-12 04:40:54

bobbym
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Re: find the answer of this series

They are pretty well known so do not expect to stump anyone for long.


In mathematics, you don't understand things. You just get used to them.
If it ain't broke, fix it until it is.
Always satisfy the Prime Directive of getting the right answer above all else.

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#11 2014-03-12 04:51:11

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Re: find the answer of this series

I don't mean to change the topic, but I've heard bobbym mention his notes or literature a few times. Do you have like a collection of notes from math texts you read?

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#12 2014-03-12 05:06:29

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Re: find the answer of this series

Hi ShivamS;

Yes I do. The best thing I ever learned was to write things down. For a zillion years I trusted everything to memory. Naturally, I forgot all of it like a dummy. Around 1993 I was watching a documentary on PBS about FLT. The documantary was horrible but I noticed finally that Fermat wrote in the margins. I started to do that. Eventually the glossing improved to where I could actually understand something 2 weeks later just by reading them.

Now, I use electronic notes. Two things are essential to have any success in mathematics when you are bumpkin like me. 1) Keep good notes. Understandable notes. 2) Be neat in your work! I am still working on it.


In mathematics, you don't understand things. You just get used to them.
If it ain't broke, fix it until it is.
Always satisfy the Prime Directive of getting the right answer above all else.

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#13 2014-03-12 05:13:53

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Re: find the answer of this series

I have taken notes for just about all undergraduate texts I have read, just in case I forget something. Recently, when the amount of what I learn is so much, I find the notes really helpful.

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#14 2014-03-12 05:20:52

bobbym
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Re: find the answer of this series

Hi

I have taken notes for just about all undergraduate texts I have read

Wunderbar, you are way ahead me when I was your age.


In mathematics, you don't understand things. You just get used to them.
If it ain't broke, fix it until it is.
Always satisfy the Prime Directive of getting the right answer above all else.

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