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Is It Infinitely Increasing? (Posted on 2004-09-30)

How much is 1√(1+ 2√(1+ 3√(1+ 4√(1+ 5√(...)))))? Does it tend to infinity?

Note: the initial 1 is just for completeness!

See The Solution Submitted by Old Original Oskar!

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re: hi

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(In reply to hi by ayala)

Most illuminating...

Just so this comment isn't as useless, I did some numbers with a calculator, and the expression seems to be 3.

Posted by e.g. on 2004-09-30 14:55:10

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