The document summarizes the solution to finding the infinite square root of 1 - 17/16. It shows that this expression equals either 1/2 or approximately 0.073. Graphing the function f(x) = 1 - 17/16 - x reveals that starting at 1, iterations of f(x) will converge to 1/2, not 0.073, since 1/2 is a stable fixed point while 0.073 is unstable. Therefore, the infinite square root equals 1/2.
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1. Solution
Week 78 (3/8/04)
Infinite square roots
Let
x = 1 −
17
16
− 1 −
17
16
−
√
1 − · · · . (1)
Then x = 1 − 17/16 − x. Squaring a few times yields x4 − 2x2 + x − 1/16 = 0,
or equivalently,
(2x − 1)(8x3
+ 4x2
− 14x + 1) = 0. (2)
Therefore, either x = 1/2, or x is a root of 8x3 + 4x2 − 14x + 1 = 0. Solving this
cubic equation numerically, or fiddling around with the values at a few points, shows
that it has three real roots. One is negative, between −1 and −2 (≈ −1.62). One
is slightly greater than 1 (≈ 1.05). And one is slightly greater than 1/14 (≈ .073).
The first two of these cannot be the answer to the problem, because x must be
positive and less than one. So the only possibilities are x = 1/2 and x ≈ .073. A
double-check shows that neither was introduced in the squaring steps above; both
are correct solutions to x = 1 − 17/16 − x. But x clearly has one definite value,
so which is it? A few iterations on a calculator, starting with a “1” under the
innermost radical, shows that x = 1/2 is definitely the answer. Why?
The answer lies in the behavior of f(x) = 1 − 17/16 − x near the points
x = 1/2 and x = α ≡ .07318 . . .. The point x = 1/2 is stable, in the sense that if
we start with an x value slightly different from 1/2, then f(x) will be closer to 1/2
than x was. The point x = α, on the other hand, is unstable, in the sense that if
we start with an x value slightly different from α, then f(x) will be farther from α
than x was.
Said in another way, the slope of f(x) at x = 1/2 is less than 1 in absolute value
(it is in fact 2/3), while the slope at x = α is greater than 1 in absolute value (it is
approximately 3.4). What this means is that points tend to head toward 1/2, but
away from α, under iteration by f(x). In particular, if we start with the value 1, as
we are supposed to do in this problem, then we will eventually get arbitrarily close
to 1/2 after many applications of f. Therefore, 1/2 is the correct answer.
The above reasoning is perhaps most easily understood via the figure below. This
figure shows graphically what happens to two initial values of x, under iteration by
f. To find what happens to a given point x0, draw a vertical line from x0 to the curve
y = f(x); this gives f(x0). Then draw a horizontal line to the point (f(x0), f(x0))
on the line y = x. Then draw a vertical line to the curve y = f(x); this gives
f(f(x0)). Continue drawing these horizontal and vertical lines to obtain successive
iterations by f.
1
2. x
f(x)
f(x) = x
f(x) =
.5.25
.25
.5
.75
1
.75 1
1 - 17/16 - x
1/16 17/16α = .073
Using this graphical method, it is easy to see that if:
• x0 > 17/16, then we immediately get imaginary values.
• α < x0 ≤ 17/16, then iteration by f will lead to 1/2.
• x0 = α exactly, then we stay at α under iteration by f.
• x0 < α, then we will eventually get imaginary values. If x0 < 1/16, then
imaginary values will occur immediately, after one iteration; otherwise it will
take more than one iteration.
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