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The second part of this question introduces an expression involving an infinite string of nested square roots but, as forbidding as it may seem, a little ingenuity is all that is needed to evaluate it.
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The second part of this question introduces an expression involving an infinite string of nested square roots but, as forbidding as it may seem, a little ingenuity is all that is needed to evaluate it.
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