Tuesday, 29 July 2014

real analysis - How I can prove that the sequence sqrt2,sqrt2sqrt2,sqrt2sqrt2sqrt2 converges to 2?




Prove that the sequence 2,22,222  converges to 2.




My attempt




I proved that the sequence is increasing and bounded by 2, can anyone help me show that the sequence converges to 2?
Thanks for your help.


Answer



Another prove:



Notice that:
a1=21/2, a2=23/4, a3=27/8, and so on, thus,
an=2(2n1)/2n=211/2n



Taking limit as n tends to infinity, we have that

limnan=21=2


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