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Calculus Level 5

lim n ( 4 n ( 3 3 + 3 T n ) ) \large \lim_{n\to\infty} \bigg ( 4^n (3-\sqrt{3+3T_n} ) \bigg )

Consider the recurrence relation T n = 2 + T n 1 T_n = \sqrt{2+T_{n-1}} with T 0 = 0 T_0 = 0 . If the limit above can be expressed as A π B A \pi^B for rational numbers A A and B B , find the value of B ÷ A B\div A .


The answer is 16.

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1 solution

Ronak Agarwal
Jul 10, 2015

By closely observing the recurrence we see we have to use a substitution :

T n = 2 c o s ( θ 2 n ) {T}_{n} = 2cos\left(\dfrac{\theta}{2^{n}}\right) , where θ \theta is an arbitary constant.

You can verify that it satisfies the recurrence relation.

For finding θ \theta put , n = 0 n=0

2 c o s ( θ ) = 0 2cos(\theta) = 0

θ = π 2 \Rightarrow \theta = \dfrac{\pi}{2}

Hence we got T n = 2 c o s ( π 2 n + 1 ) {T}_{n} = 2cos\left(\dfrac{\pi}{2^{n+1}}\right)

Hence our limit becomes :

L = lim n 4 n ( 3 3 ( 1 + 2 cos π 2 n + 1 ) ) L =\displaystyle \lim _{ n\rightarrow \infty }{ { 4 }^{ n }\left(3-\sqrt { 3(1+2\cos { \dfrac { \pi }{ { 2 }^{ n+1 } } ) } } \right) }

Put π 2 n + 1 = x \dfrac { \pi }{ { 2 }^{ n+1 } } =x to get the limit as :

L = π 2 4 lim x 0 ( 3 3 ( 1 + 2 cos x ) x 2 ) L = \displaystyle \dfrac { { \pi }^{ 2 } }{ 4 } \lim _{ x\rightarrow 0 }{ \left(\dfrac { 3-\sqrt { 3(1+2\cos { x) } } }{ { x }^{ 2 } } \right) }

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