Evaluate:
… 2 0 1 5
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thanks for the awesome explanation !! :D
nice solution
Nice Solution
Very good and simple solution.......
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Nice, never thought about it however I did as Sir Chew-Seong Cheong did.
what if the number of square roots are odd in number
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It doesn't matter.Infinity is neither odd nor even
1/infinity is not 0. It tends to zero. So it is not correct.
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just as 2 * 2 * 2 * ... * 2 is not infinity
We note that when x > 1 , we note that: x > 1 ⇒ x > 1 ⇒ x > 1 ⇒ . . . ⇒ . . . x = 1
When x < 1 , then . . . x = 0
It can also be shown by letting y = . . . x , then be have:
y y 2 ⇒ y 2 ⇒ y = . . . x = . . . x = y = { 0 1 for x < 0 for x ≥ 1
You have to specify that for x not = 0 , then y = 1..
if y^2=y then how is y=1 ..?
y^2-y=0 has two solutions. y=0 or y=1. How did you eliminate the other one.
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he said that x > 0
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How would he prove that for x > 0 , y > 0 ?
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@Aditya Agarwal – no need of the condition since square root can never be negative
I have the same view, they should have given the condition that the answer is > 0...
Actually, we started with x = 2 0 1 5 . Then 0 < 2 0 1 5 < 2 0 1 5 , 0 < 2 0 1 5 < 2 0 1 5 , 0 < 2 0 1 5 < 2 0 1 5 , .... 0 < y .
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The explanation is not convincing. Consider the sequence { n 1 } , n ≥ 1 . Each of the term of this sequence is strictly greater than zero. However the limit is zero.
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@Abhishek Sinha – You are right. x must be ≥ 1 . Thanks, I will change the solution,
Formally, This problem is asking the following : Consider a sequence { x n } , n ≥ 1 , defined by x n + 1 = x n , x 1 = 2 0 1 5 Find lim x n So, you have to first prove that the limit indeed exists. How do you show it ? Hint : Use Banach's fixed point theorem on an appropriate subset of R .
Or either: y 2 = y ⇔ y 2 − y = 0 ⇔ y ⋅ ( y − 1 ) = 0 ⇔ y = 0 or y = 1
For x ≥ 0 !
This is equal to lim n → ∞ x 2 − n . Since lim n → ∞ 2 − n = 0 , then for all x ∈ R + , the expression equals x 0 = 1 . Note that N ⊆ R + .
Square root reduces the value and here we have infinite square roots. The least value of a number when you apply square root is 1.
So infinite square root leads to least value that is 1
… 2 0 1 5 = 2 0 1 5 ∞ 1
lim x → ∞ ∞ 1 = 0
2 0 1 5 0 = 1
I got the correct answer, but I'm so glad to see the actual solutions because honestly I just guessed.
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You should know that:
2 0 1 5 = 2 0 1 5 2 1
Then:
… 2 0 1 5
= 2 0 1 5 ( 2 1 × 2 1 × 2 1 × 2 1 … )
= 2 0 1 5 ∞ 1 = 2 0 1 5 0 = 1