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I found that one too. I don't think it arises in any "real" mathematics but it's a nice example. Also, if you alternate hitting the reciprocal key and adding
by madcaptenor 6y ago
I found that one too. I don't think it arises in any "real" mathematics but it's a nice example.
Also, if you alternate hitting the reciprocal key and adding 1 you get the golden ratio 1.618033... pretty quickly.
- qubex 6y agoYeah that’s the limit of the repeated map of the cosine function for any initial value; it can be shown to be equal to x such that cos(x) – x = 0