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Last time, I gave you guys this problem:

\(X^{X^{X^{X^{X...}}}}=3 \)

What is the value of X?

 

The answer is \(\sqrt[3]{3}\)

Why? Well, let's look at this closely:

If X3 = 3, then X =  \(\sqrt[3]{3}\)

If \(X^{X^3}=3,\)

Then X = \(\sqrt[3]{3}\)

because X3 then would be 3, and X3 = 3, so  \(X^{X^3}=3,\)

Now, if \(X^{X^{X^{X^{X...}}}}=3 \)

Then X = the cube root of three. Since there is no end "three" to X raised to the power of X, we can immediately conclude that \(X=\sqrt[3]{3}\)

 

That's it. Bye. wink

 Aug 30, 2016
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unfortunately, the series a0=1, an+1=3an/3 doesn't converge to 3- it converges to the only other positive real number that satisfies the equation x3=3x. that x is approximately 2.478052680288302411893736516894690307868142312689099163591

 

(thanks wolfram alpha!)

 Mar 31, 2018

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