2 1 × 2 1 + 2 1 2 1 × 2 1 + 2 1 × 2 1 + 2 1 2 1 × ⋯ = ?
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Good problem with limit ;) https://youtu.be/uq5lTACJ-rk
Great solution! How did you come up with such a solution at this tender age?
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No offense
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well i would say experience and a bit of trail and error. my first attemts had riemann sums and telescope, both of which failed. well i think age doesnt really matter because most of our lives are spend in idleness(i spend about80% of my time with tv or friends), so we can select that % and age wont matter.
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so lets write a recursive relation: x 1 = 2 1 = cos ( 4 π ) , x n = 2 1 + x n − 1 i claim x n = cos ( 2 n + 1 π ) . we can prove this by induction. we see the base case is true. we use the half angle identities to show x n = 2 1 + x n − 1 = 2 1 + cos ( 2 n π ) = cos ( 2 n + 1 π ) that proves that, now lets take the product. n → ∞ lim k = 2 ∏ n cos ( 2 k π ) = n → ∞ lim 2 n − 1 sin ( 2 n π ) 2 n − 1 sin ( 2 n π ) ∏ k = 2 n cos ( 2 k π ) by using double angle identity,we have 1 = sin ( 2 π ) = 2 cos ( 4 π ) sin ( 4 π ) = 4 cos ( 4 π ) cos ( 8 π ) sin ( 8 π ) = 2 n − 1 cos ( 4 π ) cos ( 8 π ) . . . . cos ( 2 n π ) sin ( 2 n π ) so the limit becomes n → ∞ lim 2 n − 1 sin ( 2 n π ) 2 n − 1 sin ( 2 n π ) ∏ k = 2 n cos ( 2 k π ) = n → ∞ lim 2 n − 1 sin ( 2 n π ) 1 using small-angle approximation we have the limit n → ∞ lim 2 n − 1 sin ( 2 n π ) 1 = n → ∞ lim 2 n − 1 ( 2 n π ) 1 = π 2