Nested Square Roots of 2 Revisited

Fernandez-Sanchez, Juan; Trutschnig, Wolfgang

Publicación: AMERICAN MATHEMATICAL MONTHLY
2020
VL / 127 - BP / 344 - EP / 351
abstract
We show how various recently established results on finite and infinite nested square roots of 2 can be derived elegantly via a topological conjugacy linking the tent map and the logistic map. We also prove an additional new and striking consequence of this relationship.

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