Alright, so I have a question on a little open-book challenge-test thingy that deals with repeating square roots, in a form as follows...
√6+√6+√6+⋯
Repeated 2012 times (2012 total square roots)
Over and over and over again. I am newish to TeX, so I am not exactly sure how to model it the way it shows up on paper. It looks sorta like:
sn=√n+√n+√n+⋯
How is something like this simplified?
Working it out logically (I am a highschool freshman, mind you), I get something like this for my example:
3−162011
Is this correct? It seems like I could use some sort of limit to prove this, but I have not officially gone through anything beyond Geometry. Now, I do own bits and pieces of knowledge when it comes to calculus and such, but not enough to count on with this sorta thing ;)
EDIT|IMPORTANT: This is what I need to prove: 3>√6+√6+√6+⋯>3−152011
Where the \cdots
means however many more square roots are needed to make a total of 2012
Answer
If you start with x=√6+√6+√6+⋯
With 2012 sixes I would have thought you could only get an empirical result, perhaps something close to 3−3.3656662012
With f(n)=√6+f(n−1) starting with f(0)=0, you might try to prove something like 3−6n−1<f(n)<3
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