The image shows a sequence of inscribed regular polygons and circles. Each step, the number of sides of the polygon is increased by 1. Let
be the radius of the innermost circle after
steps and
, the radius of the largest circle.
Find
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Applying the recurrence from the start, with r 0 = 1 , we get:
r ∞ = N = 3 ∏ ∞ cos ( N π ) ≈ 0 . 1 1 4 9 4 2
I evaluated the infinite product using Wolfram Alpha .