Recently I have found out about a proof through a video.
This proof shows that an irrational number can be raised to a irrational power to get and irrational number, but this proof only requires one case, so I wanted to see if I could prove it for all irrational square roots. This is what I cam up with:
First take the square root of a positive integer, x.
√x Then apply the power for the square root of x: √x√x. Some numbers might evaluate rationally here, if so stop. If not this can be continued to (√x√x)√x=√xx. Here if x is even the equation can be written as √x2n=xn where n is a positive integer, and the equation will evaluate to a whole number [Note 1]. If x is odd this can be continued to (√xx)√2=(√x√2x) [Note 2]. Then continue to raise it to the power of the square root of two once more. (√xx√2)√2 [Note 3]. This evaluates to √x2x=xx which must be a whole number!
Thank you for reading. Is this proof correct? Hopefully, I made no mistakes and everything here is right. I assume this has been proven before. If so, can I get a link and was my proof nice compared to the other one?
[Note 1]: You cannot say √x√x could have evaluated to a whole number invalidating this proof. This case was already covered earlier.
[Note 2]: Because x is a positive integer multiplying it by a irrational number will make it irrational. The proof is still valid.
[Note 3] √2√2 is irrational
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