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    This task has the student arrive at the square root of 2 by a process similar to that of arriving at the golden ratio.

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    Another Distance-Shrinkage Task

    Uploaded by

    Mike Jones
    This task has the student arrive at the square root of 2 by a process similar to that of arriving at the golden ratio.

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    Another Distance-Shrinkage Task

    For each x > 1, let x’ = x - 1/x, and let d = x’ - 1/x.

    Your task is to find the value of x, in symbolic form, such that d = 0.

    x = _______________

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