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Recursive Pythagoras (Posted on 2025-04-29) Difficulty: 3 of 5
30 segments of lengths 1, √3, √5, √7, √9, ... ,√59 have been drawn on a blackboard. In each step, two of the segments are deleted and a new segment of length equal to the hypotenuse of the right triangle with legs equal to the two deleted segments is drawn. After 29 steps only one segment remains. Find the possible values of its length.

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